دراسة حساسية استبيان صحة المريض و نوعيته-9 في مسح الاضطراب الاكتئابي الجسيم

Abstract EN

Background and Aim: Numerous studies have been conducted to investigate depression and has been used for this measures and the questionnaires are characterized byacceptable sensitivity and specificityand easy of application as a patient health-9.

OBJECTIVE: To assess the sensitivity and specificityof the patient's health-9 questionnaire in the Screening of depression.

Material and Methods: Time of Study during the first three months of 2017, Thepatternof study is descriptive from the cross-sectional pattern on a random sample of outpatient reviewers at Mowasat University Hospital.

The results were analyzed using the SPSS program.

Results: The sample included \ 400 \ patients,the proportion of males (48.75%) , the proportion of females (51.25%).

The prevalence of depression in the studied sample was 16% , We found sensitivity and specificityof the patient's health-9 questionnaire respectively (98.3%, 79.1%).

Conclusion: We found that the Patient Health Questionnaire 9 is a reliable , and has acceptable sensitivity and specificity for use in the Screening of depression among outpatient reviewers.