Web-based tools can be used reliably to detect patients with major depressive disorder and subsyndromal depressive symptoms.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although depression has been regarded as a major public health problem, many individuals with depression still remain undetected or untreated. Despite the potential for Internet-based tools to greatly improve the success rate of screening for depression, their reliability and validity has not been well studied. Therefore the aim of this study was to evaluate the test-retest reliability and criterion validity of a Web-based system, the Internet-based Self-assessment Program for Depression (ISP-D).

Methods

The ISP-D to screen for major depressive disorder (MDD), minor depressive disorder (MinD), and subsyndromal depressive symptoms (SSD) was developed in traditional Chinese. Volunteers, 18 years and older, were recruited via the Internet and then assessed twice on t

SUBMITTER: Lin CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1855926 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature