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Screening for Depression Patients in Family Medicine

GOAL: The aims are to establish the prevalence of newfound, unidentified cases of depressive disorder by screening with the Becks Depression scale; To establish a comparative relationship with self-identified cases of depression in the patients in the family medicine; To assess the significance of t...

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Autores principales: Alic, Alma, Pranjic, Nurka, Selmanovic, Senada, Alibasic, Esad, Alic, Fahrudin, Ramic, Enisa, Spahic-Sarajlic, Selvedina
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4285996/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24783910
http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/medarh.2014.68.37-40
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author Alic, Alma
Pranjic, Nurka
Selmanovic, Senada
Alibasic, Esad
Alic, Fahrudin
Ramic, Enisa
Spahic-Sarajlic, Selvedina
author_facet Alic, Alma
Pranjic, Nurka
Selmanovic, Senada
Alibasic, Esad
Alic, Fahrudin
Ramic, Enisa
Spahic-Sarajlic, Selvedina
author_sort Alic, Alma
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description GOAL: The aims are to establish the prevalence of newfound, unidentified cases of depressive disorder by screening with the Becks Depression scale; To establish a comparative relationship with self-identified cases of depression in the patients in the family medicine; To assess the significance of the BDI in screening practice of family medicine. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A prospective study was conducted anonymously by Beck's Depression scale (Beck Depression Questionnaire org.-BDI) and specially created short questionnaire. The study included 250 randomly selected patients (20-60 years), users of services in family medicine in “Dom Zdravlja” Zenica, and the final number of respondents with included in the study was 126 (51 male, 75 female; response or response rate 50.4%). Exclusion factor was previously diagnosed and treated mental disorder. Participation was voluntary and respondents acknowledge the validity of completing the questionnaire. BDI consists of 21 items. Answers to questions about symptoms were ranked according to the Likert type scale responses from 0-4 (from irrelevant to very much). Respondents expressed themselves on personal perception of depression, whether are or not depressed. RESULTS: Depression was observed in 48% of patients compared to 31% in self estimate depression analyzed the questionnaires. The negative trend in the misrecognition of depression is -17% (48:31). Depression was significantly more frequent in unemployed compared to employed respondents (p=0.001). The leading symptom in both sexes is the perception of lost hope (59% of cases). CONCLUSION: All respondents in family medicine care in Zenica showed a high percentage of newly detected (17%) patients with previously unrecognized depression. BDI is a really simple and effective screening tool for the detection and identification of persons with symptoms of depression.
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spelling pubmed-42859962015-02-25 Screening for Depression Patients in Family Medicine Alic, Alma Pranjic, Nurka Selmanovic, Senada Alibasic, Esad Alic, Fahrudin Ramic, Enisa Spahic-Sarajlic, Selvedina Med Arch Original Article GOAL: The aims are to establish the prevalence of newfound, unidentified cases of depressive disorder by screening with the Becks Depression scale; To establish a comparative relationship with self-identified cases of depression in the patients in the family medicine; To assess the significance of the BDI in screening practice of family medicine. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A prospective study was conducted anonymously by Beck's Depression scale (Beck Depression Questionnaire org.-BDI) and specially created short questionnaire. The study included 250 randomly selected patients (20-60 years), users of services in family medicine in “Dom Zdravlja” Zenica, and the final number of respondents with included in the study was 126 (51 male, 75 female; response or response rate 50.4%). Exclusion factor was previously diagnosed and treated mental disorder. Participation was voluntary and respondents acknowledge the validity of completing the questionnaire. BDI consists of 21 items. Answers to questions about symptoms were ranked according to the Likert type scale responses from 0-4 (from irrelevant to very much). Respondents expressed themselves on personal perception of depression, whether are or not depressed. RESULTS: Depression was observed in 48% of patients compared to 31% in self estimate depression analyzed the questionnaires. The negative trend in the misrecognition of depression is -17% (48:31). Depression was significantly more frequent in unemployed compared to employed respondents (p=0.001). The leading symptom in both sexes is the perception of lost hope (59% of cases). CONCLUSION: All respondents in family medicine care in Zenica showed a high percentage of newly detected (17%) patients with previously unrecognized depression. BDI is a really simple and effective screening tool for the detection and identification of persons with symptoms of depression. AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo 2014-02-20 2014-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4285996/ /pubmed/24783910 http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/medarh.2014.68.37-40 Text en Copyright: © AVICENA http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Screening for Depression Patients in Family Medicine
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/medarh.2014.68.37-40
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