Berra Kishen, Nguyen Charles, Bota Peter
School of Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, USA.
UC Riverside School of Medicine, Riverside, California, USA.
Ment Illn. 2020 Jun 27;12(2):31-33. doi: 10.1108/MIJ-02-2020-0005. eCollection 2020.
The purpose of this paper is to discover if there is a correlation between scores on the Beck's Depression Inventory (BDI) and the Cognitive and Physical Functioning Questionnaire (CPFQ) scores of 43 patients with major depression.
DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: In total, 43 adult patients with major depression were evaluated during their regularly scheduled outpatient appointment in a mental health clinic.
There was an value of 0.6544 between the patients' scores, a moderate-to-strong correlation which matches other observations that cognitive impairment increases in conjunction with severity of depression. This correlation lends further clinical support to the legitimacy of using the CPFQ as a simpler alternative to traditional neuropsychological testing, with further testing of the correlation between CPFQ and traditional neuropsychological testing results being a worthwhile potential field of study.
ORIGINALITY/VALUE: Cognitive dysfunction is a frequent comorbidity in patients with depression, but while there is a brief and effective self- assessment for depression, the BDI, in common use, there is no equivalent test for cognitive dysfunction, and physicians are forced to rely on less accessible methods of neuropsychological testing.
本文旨在探究43例重度抑郁症患者的贝克抑郁量表（BDI）得分与认知及身体功能问卷（CPFQ）得分之间是否存在相关性。
设计/方法/途径：共有43例成年重度抑郁症患者在精神卫生诊所定期门诊就诊时接受了评估。
患者得分之间的相关值为0.6544，呈中度至高度相关，这与其他观察结果相符，即认知障碍会随着抑郁症严重程度的增加而加重。这种相关性进一步为使用CPFQ作为传统神经心理学测试的更简单替代方法的合理性提供了临床支持，对CPFQ与传统神经心理学测试结果之间的相关性进行进一步测试是一个有价值的潜在研究领域。
原创性/价值：认知功能障碍是抑郁症患者常见的共病情况，但虽然有一个简短有效的抑郁症自我评估工具，即常用的BDI，但对于认知功能障碍却没有等效的测试方法，医生不得不依赖较难获取的神经心理学测试方法。
