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| An evaluation of two self-report screening measures for mood in an out-patient chronic heart failure population | | Author(s) | J E Haworth, E Moniz-Cook, A L Clark |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 22, no 11, November 2007 |
| Pages | pp 1147-1153 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | Depression ; Anxiety ; Screening ; Heart disease ; Out-patients ; Evaluation. |
| Annotation | 88 of 203 older people with confirmed chronic heart failure (CHF) responded to a postal survey and participated in a face-to-face interview. The Geriatric Depression Scale 15-item (GDS-15) and the Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS) were compared to diagnoses from the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID-I), using a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis of positive and negative predictive values, sensitivity and specificity for cut-off points. The GDS-15 and HADS were both found to be valid scales for detecting depression in older CHF out-patients. However, use of the HADS requires reduced cut-points to ensure that patients with mood disorder are not missed in this population. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-071206223 A |
| Classmark | ENR: ENP: 3V: CQH: LFB: 4C |
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