Radloff reported a correlation of 0.56 with a clinical rating of severity of depression (1, p393). In a different sample, the CES-D scores correlated 0.44 with the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression at admission and 0.69 after treatment (N = 35); the equivalent correlations with the Raskin scale were 0.54 at admission and 0.75 after treatment (1, p393). Weissman et al. reported correlations between the CES-D and other depression scales for five different patient