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A Novel, Very Short Questionnaire As a Screening Tool For Depression
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 March 2020
Abstract
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Introduction
Self-assessment tools are frequently used as screening tools for depression. However, they are usually long and time-consuming.
Aim of the study
To assess specificity, sensitivity and overall accuracy of a novel, very short, 5 questions tool.
Subjects and methods
The questionnaire consists of 3 phenomenological (based on main symptoms of depression) and 2 questions to assess functional impact of the symptoms. One hundred and ninety patients diagnosed clinically as having major depression (according to ICD-10 criteria and with the help of MINI tool) filled the questionnaire in twice, during episode and remission.
Results
At least two (out of three possible) “yes” answers to phenomenological questions and both two “yes” functional answers yielded 100% specificity (no person in remission). At least one “yes” answer to phenomenological questions and both “yes” answers to functional question yielded 82.8% specificity, 83.7% sensitivity and 83,3% overall accuracy. These results varied insignificantly in subgroups with different depression severity.
Conclusion
A short, 5-question questionnaire may be used as a screening tool for depression. Specificity, sensitivity and overall accuracy are above 80% largely independently of depression severity.
Disclosure of interest
The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.
- Type
- EV544
- Information
- European Psychiatry , Volume 33 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 24th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2016 , pp. S423
- Copyright
- Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2016
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