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Table 3 Norm values for DESC-I

From: Validation of the Rasch-based Depression Screening in a large scale German general population sample

raw score

frequency

percentage

percentiles

θ

Z

T

0

841

33.5

33.5

-5.80

-1.09

39

1

390

15.5

49.1

-4.52

-0.38

46

2

271

10.8

59.9

-3.71

0.07

51

3

199

7.9

67.8

-3.19

0.36

54

4

153

6.1

73.9

-2.78

0.59

56

5

126

5.0

78.9

-2.42

0.79

58

6

105

4.2

83.1

-2.10

0.97

60

7

66

2.6

85.7

-1.81

1.13

61

8

69

2.8

88.5

-1.53

1.29

63

9

61

2.4

90.9

-1.26

1.44

64

10

60

2.4

93.3

-1.00

1.58

66

11

59

2.4

95.7

-0.75

1.72

67

12

42

1.7

97.3

-0.51

1.86

69

13

14

.6

97.9

-0.28

1.99

70

14

11

.4

98.3

-0.06

2.11

71

15

11

.4

98.8

0.16

2.23

72

16

8

.3

99.1

0.37

2.35

73

17

6

.2

99.3

0.57

2.46

75

18

4

.2

99.5

0.78

2.58

76

19

3

.1

99.6

0.98

2.69

77

20

3

.1

99.7

1.18

2.80

78

21

2

.1

99.8

1.38

2.91

79

22

1

.0

99.8

1.59

3.03

80

23

1

.0

99.9

1.82

3.16

82

26

1

.0

99.9

2.61

3.60

86

27

1

.0

100.0

2.97

3.80

88

>/= 28

1

.0

100.0

3.45

4.07

91

  1. Note: θ: estimated person's latent trait score for depression; Z: mean = 0, SD = 1; T: mean = 50, SD = 10