Assessment of perceived mental health-related stigma: The Stigma-9 Questionnaire (STIG-9).

Mental health-related stigma is common and inhibits help-seeking. It triggers fears of devaluation and can add to the burden of a mental disorder. To counter the consequences of mental health-related stigma, its sound assessment is crucial.

Monitoring somatic symptoms in patients with mental disorders: Sensitivity to change and minimal clinically important difference of the Somatic Symptom Scale - 8 (SSS-8).

Objective: The SSS-8 is a brief questionnaire for the assessment of somatic symptom burden. This study examines its sensitivity to change and the minimal clinically important difference (MCID) in patients with mental disorders.

Method: 55 outpatients with mental disorders completed the SSS-8 and measures of anxiety, depression, and disability before and after receiving treatment.

Depression screening with patient-targeted feedback in cardiology: The cost-effectiveness of DEPSCREEN-INFO.

Background: Although depression is common in patients with heart disease, screening for depression is much debated. DEPSCREEN-INFO showed that a patient-targeted feedback in addition to screening results in lower depression level six months after screening. The purpose of this analysis was to perform a cost-effectiveness analysis of DEPSCREEN-INFO.

Depression screening with patient-targeted feedback in cardiology: DEPSCREEN-INFO randomised clinical trial.

Background: International guidelines advocate depression screening in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) and other chronic illnesses, but evidence is lacking.

Aims: To test the differential efficacy of written patient-targeted feedback v. no written patient feedback after depression screening.

The overlap of somatic, anxious and depressive syndromes: A population-based analysis.

Objective: The comorbidity of somatic, anxious and depressive syndromes occurs in half of all primary care cases. As research on this overlap of syndromes in the general population is scarce, the present study investigated the prevalence of the overlapping syndromes and their association with health care use.

Method: A national general population survey was conducted between June and July 2012.

Base Rates of Depressive Symptoms in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease: An Individual Symptom Analysis.

Background: Major depression is common in coronary heart disease (CHD) but challenging to diagnose. Instead of focusing on the overall diagnosis of depression, base rates of depressive symptoms could facilitate screening and management of psychopathology in CHD. The present study investigates the frequency of individual depressive symptoms in CHD and their impact on cardiac and subjective health.

Development and Validation of the Somatic Symptom Disorder-B Criteria Scale (SSD-12).

Objective: To develop and validate a new self-report questionnaire for the assessment of the psychological features of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition somatic symptom disorder.

Methods: The Somatic Symptom Disorder-B Criteria Scale (SSD-12) was developed in several steps from an initial pool of 98 items. The SSD-12 is composed of 12 items; each of the three psychological subcriteria is measured by four items.

[Development of a 12-item version of the OPD-Structure Questionnaire (OPD-SQS)].

Objectives: Screening for personality dysfunction is relevant to treatment planning in psychotherapy, psychosomatic medicine and psychiatry. This makes short versions of field-tested approaches such as the OPD Structure Questionnaire (OPD-SQ) necessary.

Methods: With the aim of developing a screening version, the original sample of the OPD-SQ was divided into two subsamples.

The Munich eating and feeding disorder questionnaire (Munich ED-Quest) DSM-5/ICD-10: validity, reliability, sensitivity to change and norms.

Objective: The aim of the article is to report on the psychometric properties of a newly developed self-rating scale (Munich Eating and Feeding Disorder Questionnaire) for the detailed assessment of eating and feeding disorders on the basis of the DSM-5 criteria. The questionnaire aims at developing a comprehensive assessment of eating disorder symptoms suitable for severity ratings with regard to total scale and subscales, for deriving eating disorder diagnoses according to DSM-5 and ICD-10 and for measuring (intervention induced) changes over time.

Methods: Items were formulated by clinical experts and entered into factor analysis in two separate samples of eating-disordered inpatients.

Assessing somatic symptom burden: a psychometric comparison of the patient health questionnaire-15 (PHQ-15) and the somatic symptom scale-8 (SSS-8).

Objective: The Patient Health Questionnaire-15 (PHQ-15) is a frequently used questionnaire to assess somatic symptom burden. Recently, the Somatic Symptom Scale-8 (SSS-8) has been published as a short version of the PHQ-15. This study examines whether the instruments' psychometric properties and estimates of symptom burden are comparable.

The somatic symptom scale-8 (SSS-8): a brief measure of somatic symptom burden.

Importance: Somatic symptoms are the core features of many medical diseases, and they are used to evaluate the severity and course of illness. The 8-item Somatic Symptom Scale (SSS-8) was recently developed as a brief, patient-reported outcome measure of somatic symptom burden, but its reliability, validity, and usefulness have not yet been tested.

Objective: To investigate the reliability, validity, and severity categories as well as the reference scores of the SSS-8.

Patient selection for bedside teaching: inclusion and exclusion criteria used by teachers.

Context: Bedside teaching encounters on hospital wards offer medical students opportunities to learn key medical and interpersonal skills. Although many aspects of bedside teaching have been studied, not much is known about the selection process used by medical teachers to find patients for these encounters. Patient selection could have a substantial impact on medical students' clinical experiences.