Citation

Teng F, Hu D, Zhou Y, Liu Y, Han Y, Xu K, Yu T, Tan R, Ding X. J. Clin. Psychol. Med. Settings 2022; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2022, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10880-021-09779-z

PMID

35076824

Abstract

The Brief Symptom Inventory-18 (BSI-18) is widely used to assess psychiatric distress but has not been verified in the Chinese population. From March to April 2019, 293 hospitalized cancer patients, aged 20-87, completed the cross-sectional survey with demographics questionnaire, BSI-18, and PHQ-9. We analyzed the single suicide-related item of PHQ-9 with the full score clinical outpoint for BSI-18 and PHQ-9 using SPSS 22.0 and R 2.15, including Pearson's χ(2) test and ROC curve analyses. A Pearson's χ(2) test was carried out to compare the three different methods with the gold screening criteria. The p-value was correspondingly to.006,.066,.838. When the PHQ-9 ≥ 10 criteria for the BSI-18, receiver operating characteristic analysis revealed that AUC values were 0.839, optimal cut-off points for both BSI-18 ≥ 50, the sensitivity of 85.8%, and 62.5%, respectively. The BSI-18 is suitable for a screening tool for psychological distress and could also be used in clinical settings for preliminary screening of hospitalized cancer patients.

Language: en

Keywords

Suicidal ideation; Screening; Brief symptom inventory-18 (BSI-18); Hospitalized cancer patients (HCP)