Case-finding instruments for depression

Case - Finding Instruments for Depression Two

MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Measurements were two questions from the Primary Care Evaluation of Mental Disorders patient questionnaire, both the long and short forms of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, both the long and short forms of the Beck Depression Inventory, the Symptom-Driven Diagnostic System for Primary Care, the Medical Outcomes Study depression measure, and ...

Case-finding instruments may help identify depression in primary care.

Efficiently Finding Conditional Instruments for Causal Inference

Instrumental variables (IVs) are widely used to identify causal effects. For this purpose IVs have to be exogenous, i.e., causally unrelated to all variables in the model except the explanatory variable X . It can be hard to find such variables. A generalized IV method has been proposed that only requires exogeneity conditional on a set of covariates. This leads to a wider choice of potential I...

Diagnostic accuracy of case-finding questions to identify perinatal depression.

BACKGROUND Guidelines for perinatal mental health care recommend the use of two case-finding questions about depressed feelings and loss of interest in activities, despite the absence of validation studies in this context. We examined the diagnostic accuracy of these questions and of a third question about the need for help asked of women receiving perinatal care. METHODS We evaluated self-re...

Reliability and validity of prehospital case finding for depression and cognitive impairment.

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the test-retest reliability, the concurrent criterion validity, and the construct validity of prehospital, emergency medical service (EMS) case finding for depression and cognitive impairment in older adults. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Prehospital EMS system and hospital emergency department. PARTICIPANTS EMS providers and community-dwelling older adult (...