Item response theory is increasingly used in the development of psychometric tests. This paper evaluates whether these modern psychometric methods can improve self-reported screening for depression and anxiety in patients with heart failure.The mental health status of 194 patients with heart failure was...
(1999). Screening for mental disorders: performance of the Composite Interna- tional Diagnostic-Screener (CID-S). Int. J. Methods Psychiatr. Res. 8, 59-70.Wittchen H.U., Hofler M., Gander F., Pfister H., Storz S., Ustun T.B., Muller N. and Kessler R.C. (1999). Screening ...
However, the effectiveness of deployment-related screening is unknown. It is not likely to be effective immediately post-deployment, based on research that has shown that service members tend to conceal mental health problems at that time, due to stigma, fears of not being able to go on leave...
Diagnosing mental disorder in primary care: the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) and the Symptom Check List (SCL-90-R) as screening instruments The treatment of mental disorders in Germany is mainly done by primary care physicians. Several studies have shown that primary care physicians have ...
Life Stress and Mental Health: The Midtown Manhattan Study. Vol 2. London, England: Collier-MacMillan; 1963. 3. Hagnell O. 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 ...
Services have often been based on waiting for the presentation with full clinical manifestation of psychotic disorders and dysfunction and acute suicide risk. In the past, long-term institutionalization was common, but emphasis has gradually evolved towards health promotion, early crisis intervention, ...
Refugees constitute a vulnerable group with an increased risk of developing trauma-related disorders. From a clinician’s integrative perspective, navigating the detrimental impact of the social, economic, structural, and political factors on the mental health of refugees is a daily experience. Therefore...
Costs and outcomes of mental health and substance use disorders in the US. JAMA. 2017;318(5):415. doi:10.1001/jama.2017.8558ArticlePubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 5. Mair C, Diez Roux AV, Morenoff JD. Neighborhood stressors and social support as predictors of depressive symptoms in the ...
Services have often been based on waiting for the presentation with full clinical manifestation of psychotic disorders and dysfunction and acute suicide risk. In the past, long-term institutionalization was common, but emphasis has gradually evolved towards health promotion, early crisis intervention, ...
These results are corroborated by more recent studies; including a meta-analysis indicating that the correlations between GD and these two health disorders had an average small to medium effect size17 and a systematic review showing that depression symptoms are present in 32% of people at risk ...