@article{ref1,
title="Psychiatric distress and suicidal tendencies in adult cancer survivors: verifying the validity of the Brief Symptom Inventory-18 for identifying suicidal ideation in the hospitalized population of mainland China",
journal="Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings",
year="2022",
author="Teng, Fen and Hu, Deying and Zhou, Yi and Liu, Yilan and Han, Yanhong and Xu, Ke and Yu, Ting and Tan, Rong and Ding, Xiaoping",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1068-9583",
doi="10.1007/s10880-021-09779-z",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10880-021-09779-z"
}