Screening for depression in an urban pediatric primary care clinic

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OBJECTIVES. The goals were to estimate the prevalence of parental depressive symptoms among parents at a pediatric primary care clinic and to evaluate the stability, sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values of a very brief screen for parental depression. METHODS. A total of 216 mothers (because 96% of caregivers were mothers, we use this term) bringing in children <6 years of age for child health supervision completed a parent screening questionnaire in a primary care clinic. The parent screening questionnaire, a brief screen for psychosocial problems developed for the study, includes 2 questions on depressive symptoms. Mothers then completed the computerized study protocol within 2 months. This included the pa...

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Screening for depression in an urban pediatric primary care clinic

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