Is the Neurological Disorders Depression Inventory-Epilepsy for Youth (NDDI-E-Y) more sensitive than a neurologist? A quality improvement project.

Purpose: Depression is one of the most prevalent psychiatric comorbidities in epilepsy. This quality improvement project compared a standardized rating scale, the Neurological Disorders Depression Inventory-Epilepsy for Youth (NDDI-E-Y), with physician opinion to see if it improved sensitivity to depressive symptoms.

Results: A convenience sample of thirty adolescents with epilepsy ages 12-17 (mean [M] = 15.