Development and Validation of Hospital Mental Health Screen to Detect Psychiatric Morbidity in Medically Ill Patients in India.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Psychiatric morbidities often go unnoticed in medically ill patients. It is essential to screen patients with medical morbidity so that they can be referred to psychiatrists for early interventions in general hospitals in India. There is a potential lacuna in terms of the availability of a scale that can aptly identify psychiatric symptoms in medically ill patients beyond depression or anxiety, especially in low-resource settings like India. The aim was to detect psychiatric morbidity in medically ill patients in India.

Methods

Items were generated using deductive and inductive approaches. Item-Content Validity Index (I-CVI) and Scale-Content Validity Index/Universal Agreement (S-CVI/UA) were computed by involving eight subject matter specialists. The tool was cir

SUBMITTER: Sutar R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11572602 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature