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ArticleBJPsych open2017

Primary care Screening Questionnaire for Depression: reliability and validity of a new four-item tool.

Pillaveetil Sathyadas Indu, Thekkethayyil Viswanathan Anilkumar, Ramdas Pisharody, Paul Swamidhas Sudhakar Russell, Damodaran Raju, P Sankara Sarma, Saradamma Remadevi, K R Leela Itty Amma, A Sheelamoni, Chittaranjan Andrade

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Pillaveetil Sathyadas Indu, MD, DPM, PhD, Department of Community Medicine, Government Medical College, Trivandrum, India.
Thekkethayyil Viswanathan Anilkumar, DNB, DPM, MPhil, Department of Psychiatry, Government Medical College, Trivandrum, India.
Ramdas Pisharody, MD, DM, Clinical Epidemiology Resource Training Centre, Government Medical College, Trivandrum, India.
Paul Swamidhas Sudhakar Russell, MD, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
Damodaran Raju, MD, Department of Psychiatry, Government Medical College, Trivandrum, India.
P Sankara Sarma, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree ChitraTirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, India.
Saradamma Remadevi, PhD, Medico-Sociology, Community Medicine, Government Medical College, Trivandrum, India.
K R Leela Itty Amma, MD, Department of Community Medicine, Government Medical College, Trivandrum, India.
A Sheelamoni, MD, PhD, Clinical Epidemiology Resource Training Centre, Government Medical College, Trivandrum, India.
Chittaranjan Andrade, MD, Department of Psychopharmacology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India.

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Abstract

backgroundUnidentified depression in primary care is a public health concern, globally. There is a need for brief, valid and easily administered tools in primary care.

aimsTo estimate reliability and validity of the newly developed Primary care Screening Questionnaire for Depression (PSQ4D), a four-item tool, with 'yes' or 'no' options.

methodPSQ4D was administered verbally (time required, <1 min) by primary care physicians to adult outpatients (

resultsThe Cronbach's alpha for internal consistency reliability was 0.80; kappa coefficient for test-retest reliability was 0.9 and that for interrater reliability was 0.72. At a score ≥2, sensitivity was 0.96, specificity was 0.87, positive predictive value was 0.74, negative predictive value was 0.98, positive likelihood ratio was 7.4 and negative likelihood ratio was 0.05.

conclusionsWhen physician administered, PSQ4D has good reliability. At a cut-off score of ≥2, it has high sensitivity and specificity to identify depressive disorder in primary care. DECLARATION OF INTEREST: None. COPYRIGHT AND USAGE: © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2017. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Non-Commercial, No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license.

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