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From:Archives of Women's Mental Health (Vol. 16, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ)-9 is used widely in primary care and home visiting settings, but its validity had not been established for prenatal depression screening. We undertook our study to address this gap...
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From:Contemporary Pediatrics (Vol. 28, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedA new American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) policy statement advocates that substance abuse education and screening be included as routine components of adolescent care. Because teens can be susceptible to risk-taking...
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From:Archives of Women's Mental Health (Vol. 15, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThe study was designed to validate the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) for depression risk identification among pregnant women. Pregnant women were routinely administered the Prenatal Risk Overview, a comprehensive...
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From:Pediatric Nursing (Vol. 47, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedPurpose: The purpose of the pilot project was to identify adolescents at risk for depression, and link them to mental health services for evaluation and early intervention. Design and Methods: The project included a...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 60, Issue 38)Byline: Simon Williams When people think of mental illness, they all too often associate it with extreme cases, including those involving higher education. Unfortunately, the intense media coverage of such tragedies,...
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From:CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal (Vol. 187, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Canada has a growing multinational immigrant population. Many commonly used cognitive assessment tools have known cultural biases and are difficult to use in ethnically diverse patient populations. The...
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From:CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal (Vol. 184, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedScreening has a checkered legacy in health care. Too often, clinicians have been advised to screen for a variety of diseases or risk factors in advance of evidence that screening actually leads to improved outcomes....
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From:Clinical Practice (Vol. 11, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Mona Ghadiri-Sani aff1 , Andrew J Larner [*] aff1 Keywords: dementia; Dementia CQUIN; diagnosis; National Dementia Strategy; primary care; screening Practice points * There is a discrepancy...
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From:Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (Vol. 45, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedParents (n = 11,845) completed the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (or its latest revision) at pediatric visits. Using sociodemographic predictors of maternal education and race, binary logistic regressions...
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From:Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (Vol. 46, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedThe Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers Revised-Albanian screener (M-CHAT-R-A) was used to screen 2594 toddlers, aged 16-30 months, at well-child visits. Two hundred fifty-three (9.75 %) screened positive; follow...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 11, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground Depression screening can improve upon usual care only if screening tools accurately identify depressed patients who would not otherwise be recognized by healthcare providers. Inclusion of patients already...
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From:Clinical Advisor (Vol. 16, Issue 5)The tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., demonstrates the need to address gun issues in the health-care setting. I ask the following questions in every mental-status exam: (1) Are you suicidal? (2)...
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From:Families, Systems & Health (Vol. 36, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction: Measurement-based care (MBC) involves the systematic collection of data to inform clinical decision-making and monitor treatment outcomes. In addition to benefitting patients and providers, data on MBC...
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From:Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (Vol. 45, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis study examines whether parental report of social-communicative and repetitive behaviors at 12 months can be helpful in identifying autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in younger siblings of children with ASD [high-risk...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 11, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedThere is extensive literature establishing the influence of rumination, hopelessness, and dysfunctional attitudes on depressive symptoms. However, it is unclear whether these vulnerability factors are distinctly related...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 13, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedObjectives The CES-D is a widely used depression screening instrument. While numerous studies have analysed its psychometric properties using exploratory and various kinds of confirmatory factor analyses, only few...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 16, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedBackground The PHQ-2 was recently recommended by the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement as a form of initial perinatal screening, followed by the EPDS only for women with positive PHQ-2 score....
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From:The Advocate (Vol. 35, Issue 6)"The early detection of children who are showing psychiatric symptoms or are at the risk of a mental disorder is crucial, but introducing 'mental health checkups' as part of healthcare in schools is not altogether...
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From:Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (Vol. 42, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThe current study was motivated by a need for a self-report questionnaire that assesses a broad range of subthreshold autism traits, is brief and easily administered, and is relevant to the general population. An...
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From:The Advocate (Vol. 32, Issue 9)Military Pathways offers service personnel and their families free assessments, available online 24 hours a day, to identify symptoms associated with mental health disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder...