Brief Edinburgh Depression Scale Palliative Care
There are no validated instruments to identify depression in mexican palliative patients.
Brief edinburgh depression scale palliative care. In mild depression psychological support can be as effective as medication. The brief edinburgh depression scale is suited to palliative care patients. It is comprised of 20 true false items with each true response yielding one point and false response yielding zero points. The pgds scale is a brief scale that can be used as a self report measure or can be administered by the clinician or the patient s family member.
Although the committee found that commonly used tools such as the edinburgh depression scale and the hospital anxiety and depression scale have validated cutoff thresholds for palliative care patients the depression screening tool with the highest sensitivity specificity and positive predictive value was the question. 4 12 14 the absence of somatic items is considered an advantage yet the inclusion of only two of the seven most common depression symptoms in geriatric patients is considered a limitation. Are you feeling down depressed or hopeless most of the time over the last 2 weeks 13 14. The most valid cut off for defining a case using the pse diagnosis as the gold standard was a score of 6 out of 18 on the brief edinburgh depression scale which gave a sensitivity of 72 and specificity of 83 with a ppv of 65 1 and npv of 87 1.
The edinburgh depression scale eds and brief edinburgh depression scale beds have also been shown to be suited to palliative care patients. The validated cut off thresholds for palliative care patients should be used. The palliative grief depression scale with scores and interpretation. 4 level 3 the brief edinburgh depression scale beds has been developed as a screening tool in patients with advanced cancer.
The six item eds is a brief and sensitive method of screening for depression in advanced cancer patients this novel use of the edinburgh depression scale may have a significant impact on the assessment and thus management of this distressing symptom. 4 9 10 11 level 3. The edinburgh postnatal depression scale lloyd williams 2000 a self assessment scale consisting of ten items each rated on a 4 point scale had a sensitivity of 70 and specificity of 80 in patients with metastatic cancer receiving palliative care.