Screening and 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.

Screening for bipolar disorder: confusion between case-finding and screening.

hypomanic or manic episodes must be elicited. Recommendations for improving the detection of bipolar disorder include careful clinical evaluations, inquiring about a history of mania and hypomania, and the use of screening questionnaires [11–13] . Many scales have been developed to assess manic/hypomanic symptoms. Some of these instruments are crosssectional measures of symptom severity, and, p...

Screening for Bipolar Disorder: Confusion between Case-Finding and Screening

hypomanic or manic episodes must be elicited. Recommendations for improving the detection of bipolar disorder include careful clinical evaluations, inquiring about a history of mania and hypomania, and the use of screening questionnaires [11–13] . Many scales have been developed to assess manic/hypomanic symptoms. Some of these instruments are crosssectional measures of symptom severity, and, p...

Screening instruments for psoriatic arthritis.