Trial reportAmbulatory pediatrics : the official journal of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association
Anxiety and depression screening for youth in a primary care population.
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- Accuracy of Depression Screening Tools to Detect Major Depression in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2016Pooled it
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- Psychometric properties of the short mood and feelings scale among Chinese adolescents using item response theory.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Within-Person Variability Score-Based Causal Inference: A Two-Step Estimation for Joint Effects of Time-Varying Treatments.Psychometrika · 2023Article
- Making high-quality measures available in diverse contexts-The psychometric properties of the Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale in a Norwegian sample.International journal of methods in psychiatric research · 2022Article
- An online parenting intervention to prevent affective disorders in high-risk adolescents: the PIPA trial protocol.Trials · 2022Article
- Circadian preference is associated with multiple domains of trait and state level impulsivity.Chronobiology international · 2022Article
- Prevalence of depressive symptoms among older children and young adolescents: a longitudinal population-based study.Scandinavian journal of child and adolescent psychiatry and psychology · 2021Review
- Depressive Symptom and Associated Factors Among School Adolescents of Urban, Semi-Urban and Rural Areas in Bangladesh: A Scenario Prior to COVID-19.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- How adolescents understand their values: A qualitative study.Clinical child psychology and psychiatry · 2021Article
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- Predictive Utility of Body Mass Index for Metabolic Syndrome Among Patients with Schizophrenia in Japan.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2020Article
- Validation of the Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (MFQ) and Short Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (SMFQ) in New Zealand help-seeking adolescents.International journal of methods in psychiatric research · 2018Article
- The Relationship Between Anger and Anxiety Symptoms in Youth with Anxiety Disorders.Journal of child and adolescent counseling · 2018Article
- Weekend-weekday advances in sleep timing are associated with altered reward-related brain function in healthy adolescents.Biological psychology · 2012Article
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- What is the role of general practice in addressing youth mental health? A discussion paper.Irish journal of medical science · 2012Review
- Real-world affect and social context as predictors of treatment response in child and adolescent depression and anxiety: an ecological momentary assessment study.Journal of child and adolescent psychopharmacology · 2012Article
- Children's Depression Screener (ChilD-S): development and validation of a depression screening instrument for children in pediatric care.Child psychiatry and human development · 2012Article
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Abstract
objectivePrior studies have shown a low rate of accurate identification by primary care physicians of mental health disorders in youth. This study tested the psychometric properties of 2 brief mental health screening questionnaires, the Mood and Feelings Questionnaire, short form, (MFQ-SF) and Childhood Anxiety Sensitivity Index (ASI), in a large sample of youth.
methodsIn a sample of 1375 youth aged 11 to 17 (779 with asthma, 596 randomly selected controls) enrolled in a health maintenance organization, the psychometric properties (optimum cutoffs on receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curves, sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values) of 2 brief anxiety and depression screens were compared with a gold standard-structured psychiatric interview.
resultsBoth the MFQ-SF and ASI performed well on ROC analysis for screening youth for 1 or more Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV (DSM-IV) anxiety or depressive disorders. The MFQ-SF performed better on ROC analysis than the ASI for youth with major depression (area under the curve of 0.84 vs 0.77). For screening youth with anxiety disorders, ROC curves showed that both the MFQ-SF and ASI only performed in the fair range (area under the curve of 0.76).
conclusionThe MFQ-SF and ASI are 2 relatively brief questionnaires that performed well for screening youth for 1 or more DSM-IV anxiety or depressive disorders. The MFQ-SF performed better than the ASI for screening youth with major depression. Use of these instruments could increase the accuracy of identification of mental health disorders in youth by primary care physicians.
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