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Family Practice Advance Access originally published online on October 11, 2006
Family Practice 2006 23(6):693-698; doi:10.1093/fampra/cml052
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Screening for depression in primary care

Pille Ööpika, Anu Aluojab, Ruth Kaldaa and Heidi-Ingrid Maaroosa

a Department of Family Medicine, University of Tartu Tartu, Estonia
b Department of Psychiatry, University of Tartu Tartu, Estonia

Correspondence to Pille Ööpik, Department of Family Medicine, University of Tartu, Puusepa 1a, 50406 Tartu, Estonia. Email: pille.oopik@ut.ee

Received 25 May 2006; Revised 13 August 2006; Accepted 13 September 2006.

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   Introduction
 
Depression has become one of the most prevalent mental disorders. Depressive disorders or significant depressive symptoms have been found in up to 25% of patients visiting general or family practitioners.1,2 Thus family doctors frequently meet depressive patients in their everyday work, and the importance of timely evidence-based diagnostics and treatment of the disorder has increased. The diagnosis of depression often presents difficulties, as it is time consuming and requires more clinical investigation.3 The recognition of depression on the primary care level could be improved by the availability of relevant diagnostic devices. Structured psychiatric interviews, e.g. Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI),4,5 are reliable diagnostic instruments but these are too time consuming for family doctors and too elaborate for the routine use in primary care. Therefore, short self-rate questionnaires are proposed as screening devices of potential depressive patients in primary care. Self-rate instruments also enable the recognition of persons with . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Methods
 
Sample
Psychometric instruments
CIDI. Screening questionnaires—EST-Q2. Statistical analysis

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