The K6 scale has been shown to significantly outperform the widely used 12-question General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) in screening for International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) disorders, even though the GHQ-12 has twice as many questions as the K6 scale.10 The ...
two instruments in their capacity to detect personality disorder according to ICD-10 taxonomy and to estimate the efficiency of the use of the two together in a case-finding exercise.Ninety psychiatric out-patients in Bangalore, India, were assessed for personality disorder using the two methods. ...
Oral mucosal disorder, as detected by chemiluminescence, was compared with oral mucosal disorder detected by TB staining or visual examination. True-positive, true-negative, false-positive, and false-negative rates were extracted for each study. Methodological quality was examined using the Quality Asse...
The Drug Use Screening Inventory (DUSI) has been shown to have sound psychometric properties for quantifying the severity of health, behavior and psychosocial problems concomitant to substance use in adolescents. Its utility for identifying youth who will develop a disorder of abuse/dependence has, ...
Among current drinkers, 19% of males and 10% of females met diagnostic criteria for an alcohol use disorder, suggesting the importance of identifying those who may benefit from a brief intervention in primary care settings, and suggesting the need for further research in determining those ...
One of the challenges to screening for multi-morbidity is the 5 to 10 min of time it takes to accurately screen for each individual disorder. Ideally, screening procedures should identify diagnostic criteria for multi-morbidity and assess risk in other areas of life (e.g., physical health, ...
of managing this disorder. It has been shown in many controlled trials that application of therapies at the appropriate time is essential to successful outcomes in premature infants affected by ROP. Bedside binocular indirect ophthalmoscopy has been the standard technique for diagnosis and monitoring of...
To determine a threshold for the GDSS, we computed the sensitivity and specificity for different GDSS cut-off points referring to the diag- nosis of gaming disorder through ICD-11. The cutoff point with the highest youden's index was determined as the optimal cutoff point. The significance ...
WHO. The ICD-10 classification of mental and behavioural disorders—diagnostic criteria for research. Geneva: WHO; 1993. Google Scholar Ludwick JJ, Oosthuizen PP. Screening for and monitoring of cardio-metabolic risk factors in outpatients with severe mental illness in a primary care setting. Afr...
We prioritized major depressive episode over major depressive disorder, if both were provided, because screening attempts to detect episodes, and we prioritized DSM over ICD. For 4 studies with multiple recruitment settings, setting was coded by participant. When primary studies provided sampling ...