作者
Laurence Tan, Hui Jin Toh, Lai Kiow Sim, James Alvin Low
发表日期
2018/9
期刊
Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association
卷号
24
期号
5
页码范围
452-456
出版商
SAGE Publications
简介
BACKGROUND
The current screening tools for depression can be tedious to administer, especially in the elderly population with hearing impairment and/or limited proficiency in English language. OBJECTIVES
To look at the feasibility of using emoticon as a screening and assessment tool for depression in the elderly. DESIGN
Cross-sectional study. METHOD
A total of 77 elderly patients completed the study from June 2014 to August 2015 in a general geriatric outpatient clinic of an acute care hospital in Singapore. Patients rated their mood using an emoticon scale, which ranges from 1 (most happy face) to 7 (most sad face). Depression was assessed using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed.; DSM-IV) criteria as the gold standard. Sensitivity and specificity for depression were calculated for the cutoff scores from 1 to 7 on the emoticon scale. RESULTS
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