The similarity of the structure of DSM-IV criteria for major depression in depressed women from China, the United States and Europe

Background Do DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for major depression (MD) in Chinese and Western women perform in a similar manner? Method The CONVERGE study included interview-based assessments of women of Han Chinese descent with treated recurrent MD. Using Mplus software, we investigated the overall degree of between-sample measurement invariance (MI) for DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for MD in the CONVERGE sample and samples selected from four major Western studies from the USA and Europe matched to the inclusion criteria of CONVERGE. These analyses were performed one pair at a time. We then compare... Mehr ...