Taiminen T J, Saarijärvi S, Helenius H, Keskinen A, Korpilahti T, Salokangas R K
Department of Psychiatry, Turku University Central Hospital, Finland.
Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1996 Sep;94(3):185-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1996.tb09846.x.
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.
抑郁量表（DEPS）是一种用于在初级卫生保健中检测抑郁症的新型筛查工具，在50名自杀未遂者中与汉密尔顿抑郁量表（HDS）进行了比较。以HDS作为金标准，DEPS诊断抑郁症的阳性预测值和阴性预测值分别为98%和20%。HDS总分与DEPS总分之间的相关性为0.60。DEPS可能有助于全科医生在自杀未遂者中检测抑郁症，但不应将其用于排除抑郁症。
