Screening for psychiatric disorders in a lymphoma out-patient population.
Eur J Cancer
; 28A(11): 1869-72, 1992.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-1389529
ABSTRACT
The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), a four-point, 14-item self-assessment questionnaire, was tested as a screening method for psychiatric disorders in a sample of 117 Hodgkin's lymphoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma consecutive out-patients. A receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis was performed, giving the relationship between the true positive rate (sensitivity) and the false positive rate (1--specificity). This makes it possible to choose an optimal cut-off score that takes into account the costs and benefits of treatment of psychiatric disorders (mainly adjustment, depressive and anxiety disorders) in a lymphoma out-patient population. A cut-off point of 10 gave 84% sensitivity and 66% specificity. HADS appears in this study to be a well accepted, simple, sensitive and specific tool.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Transtornos de Ansiedade
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Linfoma não Hodgkin
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Doença de Hodgkin
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Transtornos de Adaptação
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Transtorno Depressivo
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Qualitative_research
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Screening_studies
Limite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Aged
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Aged80
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
1992
Tipo de documento:
Article