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- Title
Screening for Anxiety and Depression in Community Mental Health: The Beck Anxiety and Depression Inventories.
- Authors
Eack, Shaun M.; Singer, Jonathan B.; Greeno, Catherine G.
- Abstract
Accurate diagnosis is key to providing quality services in community mental health. This research examined the ability of the Beck Anxiety and Depression Inventories to identify anxiety and depression in community settings. The diagnostic accuracy of these instruments was compared with the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV in a sample of 288 distressed women seeking treatment for their children. Operating characteristic curves indicated the Beck Anxiety and Depression Inventories hold utility as screens for panic and major depressive disorder, respectively. Deploying these instruments as initial screens in a tiered diagnostic system may improve diagnostic accuracy in community settings.
- Subjects
COMMUNITY mental health services; MENTAL health; DIAGNOSIS of mental depression; TREATMENT of depression in children; THERAPEUTICS; MENTAL depression; DIAGNOSIS; ANXIETY; BECK Anxiety Inventory; STRUCTURED Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Dissociative Disorders; ECONOMICS
- Publication
Community Mental Health Journal, 2008, Vol 44, Issue 6, p465
- ISSN
0010-3853
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10597-008-9150-y