Screening for generalized anxiety disorder in geriatric primary care patients.

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Screening for generalized anxiety disorder in geriatric primary care patients. Abstract Text:

Julie Loebach Wetherell,Georgia D Birchler,Joe Ramsdell, ,

OBJECTIVE: To compare two brief screening measures as tools for detecting generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) among older primary care patients. METHODS: Receiver operating characteristic curve analysis was used to compare the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and the Brief Symptom Inventory-18 (BSI-18) against GAD diagnoses obtained from a structured diagnostic interview. RESULTS: The HADS Anxiety subscale was the only measure that distinguished individuals with and without GAD. A cutpoint greater than or equal to 8 on the HADS Anxiety subscale resulted in a sensitivity of 0.967 and a specificity of 0.667 for detecting GAD. CONCLUSIONS: The HADS Anxiety subscale appears to show some advantages over the BSI-18 Anxiety subscale as a brief, self-report measure of anxiety symptoms among older medical patients.

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JL Wetherell,GD Birchler,J Ramsdell,J ,

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Screening for generalized anxiety disorder in geriatric primary care patients. Journal Published:

PUBLICATION TYPE: Research Support, N.I.H., Extr

Journal: International journal of geriatric psychiatry

VOLUME: 22

Page Numbers: 115-23

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ISSN: 0885-6230

DAY: 3

MONTH: Feb

YEAR: 2007

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LANGUAGE: eng

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KEYWORDS: Sensitivity and Specificity

MESH TERMS: methods

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AFFILIATION: University of California, San Diego, CA, USA. jwetherell@ucsd.edu

Country: England

AGENCY: United States NIMH

GRANT: K23 MH067643

ACRONYM: MH

MEDLINETA: Int J Geriatr Psychiatry

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