Introduction
Methods
Research Population
Recruitment Study Population
Measurement Instruments
Categories | Classified diagnoses |
---|---|
Stress-related complaints | Tension, irritated, anger, nervousness, other adaptation disorders, surmenage and burnout |
Depression | Depressive episode, depressive personality syndrome and neurotic depression |
Anxiety | Panic syndrome, generalised anxiety, agoraphobia, social phobia, other anxiety syndromes and post-traumatic stress syndrome |
Somatisation | Somatisation, persistent somatoform pain syndrome, other somatoform syndromes, carcinophobia and nosophobia |
Other psychological complaints | Psychosis, other psychiatric syndromes and personality syndromes |
Other complaints | Symptoms which were not classified elsewhere; dermatology, bone and muscle system, respiratory system, urogenital system, cardiac system, nervous system, eye system |
Analyses
Results
Subjects
Optimal Cut-Off Point
Cut-off point | Sensitivity | Specificity |
---|---|---|
6 | 0.463 | 0.866 |
≥5 | 0.721 | 0.809 |
≥4
|
0.798
|
0.726
|
≥3 | 0.899 | 0.601 |
≥2 | 0.949 | 0.426 |
≥1 | 1.000 | 0.300 |
0 | 1.000 | 0.000 |
Correlations Between Distress Screener and 4DSQ Subscales
Distress (N = 170) | Somatisation (N = 167) | Anxiety (N = 168) | Depression (N = 170) | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Distress screener | 0.82* | 0.51 | 0.55 | 0.60 |
Comparison of Distress Score and OPs Diagnoses
OPs diagnoses | |||||
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Stress related complaints (%) | Depression (%) | Other psychological complaints (%) | Other complaints (%) | ||
Distress screener | Positive | 21 (80.8) | 5 (100) | 2 (100) | 22 (22.4) |
(cut-off ≥4) | Negative | 5 (19.2) | 0 | 0 | 76 (77.6) |
4DSQ-distress score | Positive | 20 (80) | 5 (100) | 2 (100) | 28 (28.9) |
(cut-off ≥11) | Negative | 5 (20) | 0 | 0 | 69 (71.1) |