After obtaining their written informed consent, trained workers administered the Primary Care Evaluation of Mental Disorders Patient Health Questionnaire. Data were analyzed using Epi Info software for Windows. Results: Out of 1056 study participants, 121 (11.5%) suffered from any mental health disorder...
However, the number of competing scales can make choosing a measure difficult [2]. Most of the self-rating scales target specific symptoms such as the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) for depression [3], Generalized Anxiety Disorder Questionnaire 7-item scale (GAD-7) for anxiety [4], an...
The risk of a patient having a mental disorder (except phobia, substance abuse or somatoform disorder) was less than 6% in case of a negative screening test. In patients with a current depressive disorder, 87.1% (27/31) were screening positive, and all except 1 (93.0%) of the 14 ...
A Prospective Study of the Incidence of Mental Disorder: A Study Based on 24,000 Person Years of the Incidence of Mental Disorders in a Swedish Population Together With an Evaluation of the Aetiological Significance of Medical, Social, and Personality Factors. Lund, Sweden: Svenska Bokforlaget; ...
[CIDI]), and well-validated screening scales (e.g., the General Health Questionnaire [GHQ] and the Malaise Inventory; [45,46]). Registry data from official hospital reports or surveys of mental disorder diagnoses were also included. For the calculation of prevalence rates, we extracted the ...
Compare a questionnaire based on the HEADSS approach (QBH-16) and the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) in the screening of mental disorder in adolescents with behavioral problems. Adolescents from both genders 12–17 years-old presenting behavioral problems without a previous diagnosis of mental disor...
workers. In addition, these tools can be designed to customize treatment based on an individual’s specific symptoms, improving treatment efficacy36,37. These systems can also be utilized for mental disorder screening in various settings, such as universities, the military, and basic healthcare ...
Results: The sensitivities of the questionnaire, scored in three different ways, ranged from 100% to 47%. Specificities ranged from 18% to 72%. As a global screen for mental disorder it had a very high false-positive rate, with, in one sample, 83% of patients screening positive while ...
Screening for psychosis risk among adolescents in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: a description of the irst step with the 16-item version of the Prodromal Questionnaire (PQ-16). Early Interv Psychiatry 2016; published online Nov 9. DOI:10.1111/eip.12362....
Fig. 3: Publication counts by disorder and symptomatology. In this graph, we display the counts of publications that study specific disorders and symptomatology. Full size image Nearly half of the studies in the dataset (37/75) examined depression. Examples included studying depression generally28,...