Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN): Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale, Wave 3, 2000-2002

The Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN) was a large-scale, interdisciplinary study of how families, schools, and neighborhoods affect child and adolescent development. One component of the PHDCN was the Longitudinal Cohort Study, which was a series of coordinated longitudinal studies that followed over 6,000 randomly selected children, adolescents, and young adults, and their primary caregivers over time to examine the changing circumstances of their lives, as well as the personal characteristics, that might lead them toward or away from a variety of antisocial behaviors. Numerous measures were administered to respondents to gauge various aspects of human development, including individual differences, as well as family, peer, and school influences. One such measure was the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale. It was administered to subjects' primary caregivers (PCs) in Cohorts 0, 3, 6, 9, 12, and 15. It assessed recent depressive symptomatology.

芝加哥邻里人类发展项目（Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods，PHDCN）是一项大规模跨学科研究，旨在探究家庭、学校与邻里环境对儿童及青少年发展的影响。该项目的核心组成部分之一为纵向队列研究（Longitudinal Cohort Study），该系列协同纵向研究历时追踪了超过6000名随机选取的儿童、青少年、青年群体及其主要照料者（primary caregivers），以考察其生活环境的动态变化，以及可能促使个体趋近或规避各类反社会行为的个人特征。研究人员向受访者施测了多种评估工具，以衡量人类发展的多个维度，包括个体差异、家庭、同伴及学校环境的影响。其中一项测量工具为流调中心抑郁量表（Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale），该量表在队列0、3、6、9、12及15组中施测于受试者的主要照料者，用于评估近期抑郁症状表现。