Journal article
Screening for Psychiatric Disorders in Medical Patients: A Feasibility and Patient Acceptance Study
Medical care, v 32(6), pp 603-608
Jun 1994
PMID: 8189777
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Abstract
This study examines whether medical patients were bothered or upset by being asked to complete a questionnaire about emotional and substance use problems, and whether a newly developed, brief questionnaire that screens for several psychiatric disorders (the SCREENER) was easy for patients to complete. A consecutive series of outpatients attending the General Medical Clinic at the Philadelphia Veterans Affair Medical Center (VAMC) was approached to ask their participation in a research study requiring the completion of a brief questionnaire about their emotions, moods, thoughts, and behaviors, and a second questionnaire that asked their opinion about the first measure. Only 3.1% of the patients indicated that the questions were difficult to answer, whereas 84.6% found the questions easy or very easy to answer. Between 80% to 90% of the patients were not embarrassed, upset, annoyed, or uncomfortable by answering the questions. Individuals with a history of psychiatric treatment and poorer current mental health were the most likely to have a negative reaction to the questionnaire. Thus, the medical patients in this study reacted favorably to the completion of a broad-based questionnaire about emotional problems. The questions were judged easy to answer and rarely aroused significant negative affect.
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- Title
- Screening for Psychiatric Disorders in Medical Patients: A Feasibility and Patient Acceptance Study
- Creators
- Mark Zimmerman - Drexel UniversityNeil FarberJon HartungDavid LushMary Kuzma
- Publication Details
- Medical care, v 32(6), pp 603-608
- Publisher
- Lippincott-Raven Publishers
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- MD (Doctor of Medicine) Program
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:A1994NQ01400005
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0028451310
- Other Identifier
- 991019184020004721
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