Routinely administered questionnaires for depression and anxiety: systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine the effect of routinely administered psychiatric questionnaires on the recognition, management, and outcome of psychiatric disorders in non-psychiatric settings.

Data sources

Embase, Medline, PsycLIT, Cinahl, Cochrane Controlled Trials Register, and hand searches of key journals.

Methods

A systematic review of randomised controlled trials of the administration and routine feedback of psychiatric screening and outcome questionnaires to clinicians in non-psychiatric settings. Narrative overview of key design features and end points, together with a random effects quantitative synthesis of comparable studies.

Main outcome measures

Recognition of psychiatric disorders after feedback of questionnaire results; interventions for psychiatric disor

SUBMITTER: Gilbody SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC26571 | biostudies-literature | 2001 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature