TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1996//
TI  - Depression Scale (DEPS) among suicide attempters
JO  - Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica
A1  - Taiminen, T. J.
A1  - Saarijärvi, S.
A1  - Helenius, Hans
A1  - Keskinen, A.
A1  - Korpilahti, T.
A1  - Salokangas, R. K.
SP  - 185
EP  - 186
VL  - 94
IS  - 3
N2  - The Depression Scale (DEPS), a new screening instrument for detecting depression in primary health care, was compared with the Hamilton Depression Scale (HDS) among 50 suicide attempters. Using the HDS as a gold standard, the positive and negative predictive values of the DEPS for the diagnosis of depression were 98% and 20%, respectively. The correlation between the total HDS scores and the total DEPS scores was 0.60. The DEPS may help general practitioners to detect depression among suicide attempters, but it should not be used to exclude depression.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0001-690X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -