Are there subgroup differences in the accuracy of ‘screening’ questions for mood and anxiety disorder diagnostic interviews?
Matthew Sunderland, Tim Slade · 2024
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Matthew Sunderland and Tim Slade checked whether the opening screening questions of a major mental health interview work equally well for everyone. Big surveys use these questions to decide who gets the full mood and anxiety modules, so any bias would skew prevalence estimates. The team analyzed nearly sixteen thousand Australians from a national survey.
Some questions did behave differently across groups, mainly by age and sex at birth, with fewer differences tied to employment, place, or substance use. But when the scores were adjusted for that bias, screening accuracy barely moved: sensitivity and specificity shifted by less than a tenth at most. The authors conclude the bias exists but has minimal effect on who gets screened into the full interview.
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| CREATOR | Matthew Sunderland, Tim Slade |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |