Optimizing screening for depression, anxiety disorders, and post-traumatic stress disorder in inpatient addiction treatment: A preliminary investigation.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Substance use disorders (SUD) are frequently comorbid with other psychiatric conditions, but a comprehensive diagnostic assessment is often not feasible clinically. Efficient psychometrically-validated screening tools exist for commonly comorbid conditions, but cutoff accuracies have typically not been evaluated in addiction treatment settings. This study examined the performance of several widely-used screening measures in relation to diagnostic status from a clinical interview to identify and validate cutoff scores in an inpatient SUD treatment setting.

Method

Participants were 99 patients in a large residential SUD treatment program in Ontario, Canada. Participants completed a screening battery, including the Patient Health Questionnaire - 9 (PHQ-9), Generalized

SUBMITTER: Levitt EE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11381827 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature