Inventário de Depressão em Transtornos Neurológicos para a Epilepsia (IDTN-E): versão brasileira de um instrumento de rastreamento
INTRODUCTION: Depression is the most common psychiatric comorbidity in epilepsy, being its identification frequently neglected in most epilepsy centers. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the performance of the Brazilian version of the Neurological Disorders Depression Inventory for Epilepsy (NDDI-E) in a group...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2011 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP) |
| Repositorio: | Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.unifesp.br:11600/6212 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1676-26492011000200004 http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/6212 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | epilepsy depression screening diagnosis epilepsia depressão rastreamento diagnóstico |
| Sumario: | INTRODUCTION: Depression is the most common psychiatric comorbidity in epilepsy, being its identification frequently neglected in most epilepsy centers. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the performance of the Brazilian version of the Neurological Disorders Depression Inventory for Epilepsy (NDDI-E) in a group of patients from a specialized center. METHODS: The recently validated Brazilian version of the NDDI-E was applied to a group of 142 outpatients with epilepsy. We used the MINI-Plus as a gold standard to diagnosis major depressive episode. Results: Forty patients (28.2%) were depressed at the time of evaluation. The ROC curve analysis indicated that the cutoff at 15 (>15) represented the greatest dichotomy between depressed and nondepressed (sensitivity 70.0%, specificity of 87.3%, positive predictive value of 68.3% and negative predictive value of 88.1%). The use of lower cutoff points may eventually be adopted to provide greater sensitivity to the instrument. CONCLUSION: The Brazilian version of NDDI-E is a sensitive and practical tool that can help in tracking depression in epilepsy in order to reduce its underdiagnosis. |
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