Screening for Depression in Adults: A Summary of the Evidence for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

By Michael P. Pignone, B. Gaynes, J. Rushton, Catherine Mills Burchell, C. Orleans, C. D. Mulrow, K. Lohr. Annals of Internal Medicine, 2002

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Subfields: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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• Depressive symptoms and health-related quality of life: the Heart and Soul Study. (2003, background): “A priori, we divided the symptom burden scores into categories reflecting daily (0-30), weekly (31-60), monthly (61-90), or absent (91-100) angina; the physical limitation scores into severe (0-24), moderate (25-49), mild (50-74), or minimal (75-100) physical limitation; and the quality-of-life scor”
• Collaborative care management of late-life depression in the primary care setting: a randomized controlled trial. (2002, neutral): “Medicare coverage 1380 (77) 686 (77) 694 (77) .”
• Reducing suicidal ideation and depressive symptoms in depressed older primary care patients: a randomized controlled trial. (2004, methodology): “In this context, the intervention’s positive impact on patient outcomes using ITT analyses is encouraging and consistent with recent clinical guidelines that suggest that routine depression screening in primary care has the potential to improve patient outcomes if followed with appropriate treatment”
• Screening for Depression in Medical Settings with the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ): A Diagnostic Meta-Analysis (2007, background): “Screening and case finding has been proposed to improve the recognition and management of depression.(5,6) To be acceptable in practice, instruments must be valid, reliable, brief, and easy to use.”
• Suicide prevention strategies: a systematic review. (2005, methodology): “The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) review of studies of depression screening in adults in primary health care settings found a 10% to 47% increase in rates of detection and diagnosis of depression with the use of screening tools.(24) The effect on treatment was mixed, due to differences ”
• The effect of postpartum depression on child cognitive development and behavior: A review and critical analysis of the literature (2003, background): “There is some evidence for the effectiveness of screening in combination with systematic treatment (see Pignone et al., 2002; Hoffbrand et al., 2002).”
• Depressive Symptoms among Pregnant Women Screened in Obstetrics Settings (2003, neutral): “22 At this point, there are no clear guidelines for appropriate treatment of antenatal and postnatal depression.”
• Screening for Depression in the General Population with the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D): A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis (2016, positive): “Given these figures, systematic screening has been advocated as a means for improving detection, treatment and outcomes of depression, and also to facilitate follow-up of patients’ progress [10;11].”