Publications by authors named "Panagiotis P Ferentinos"
Article Synopsis
- The study compares the effectiveness of two screening tools for major depression: the seven-item Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale Depression subscale (HADS-D) and the total score of the 14-item version (HADS-T), which includes anxiety items and takes longer to complete.
- An analysis of data from 20,700 participants revealed that both HADS-D and HADS-T had similar sensitivity and specificity for detecting major depression, with optimal cutoffs being ≥7 for HADS-D and ≥15 for HADS-T.
- Overall, while both tools are accurate, the shorter HADS-D is preferred in most clinical settings due to its simplicity and time efficiency.
Background: To what extent the COVID-19 pandemic and its containment measures influenced mental health in the general population is still unclear.
Purpose: To assess the trajectory of mental health symptoms during the first year of the pandemic and examine dose-response relations with characteristics of the pandemic and its containment.
Data Sources: Relevant articles were identified from the living evidence database of the COVID-19 Open Access Project, which indexes COVID-19-related publications from MEDLINE via PubMed, Embase via Ovid, and PsycInfo.
Objectives: Validated diagnostic interviews are required to classify depression status and estimate prevalence of disorder, but screening tools are often used instead. We used individual participant data meta-analysis to compare prevalence based on standard Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale - depression subscale (HADS-D) cutoffs of ≥8 and ≥11 versus Structured Clinical Interview for DSM (SCID) major depression and determined if an alternative HADS-D cutoff could more accurately estimate prevalence.
Methods: We searched Medline, Medline In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations via Ovid, PsycINFO, and Web of Science (inception-July 11, 2016) for studies comparing HADS-D scores to SCID major depression status.
Objective: Two previous individual participant data meta-analyses (IPDMAs) found that different diagnostic interviews classify different proportions of people as having major depression overall or by symptom levels. We compared the odds of major depression classification across diagnostic interviews among studies that administered the Depression subscale of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS-D).
Methods: Data accrued for an IPDMA on HADS-D diagnostic accuracy were analysed.
Background. Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a systemic inflammatory disease with chronic back pain as the most common presenting symptom. We present a case of a male patient with AS reporting symptoms of severe low back pain, buttock pain, and limited spinal mobility.
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