101. Sensitivity and Specificity in Three Measures of Depression Among Mexican American Women.
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Valencia-Garcia, Dellanira, Bi, Xiaoyu, and Ayón, Cecilia
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DIAGNOSIS of mental depression ,CHI-squared test ,CONFIDENCE intervals ,MENTAL depression ,MEDICAL screening ,PROBABILITY theory ,QUESTIONNAIRES ,RESEARCH funding ,WOMEN'S health ,LOGISTIC regression analysis ,DATA analysis ,DISEASE prevalence ,RESEARCH methodology evaluation ,DATA analysis software ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics ,ODDS ratio - Abstract
This paper examined the prevalence of depressive symptomotology among women of Mexican ancestry (N = 205), over the age of 18, of diverse incomes and nativity. We examined differences in rates of diagnosis by Spanish/English preference and the sensitivity and specificity of three common measures: the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ9), the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K-10), and depression questions from the Composite International Diagnostic Interview, Short Form (MDD CIDI-SF); PHQ9 was used as the 'gold standard' measure. Results indicated 18-32 % of participants met criteria for depression with higher rates found among Spanish preference participants. The K-10 had significantly higher sensitivity (0.81) but lower specificity (0.79) than the MDD CIDI-SF items (0.57 and 0.89, respectively). This study suggests that the K-10 and MDD CIDI-SF measures are complementary to each other for screening of depressive symptomatology. Implications for cultural and linguistic assessment of depression are further discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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