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The Arabic self-reporting questionnaire (SRQ) as a psychiatric screening instrument in medical patients
A S Al-Subaie1, K Mohammed, T Al-Malik
1Division of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, King Saud University, and Security Forces Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Background:
The self-reporting questionnaire was originally developed by the WHO in order to screen for psychiatic disorders. To assess the validity of the Arabic self-reporting questionnaire (SRQ) as a screening instrument for psychiatric morbidity in a sample of Saudi medical patients.
Methods:
All patients referred for endoscopy underwent a semi-structured interview, and were then asked to fill out the SRQ. One hundred and sixty-six males and 126 females were included in the study.
Results:
Sixty percent of the subjects were identified by the SRQ as psychiatric cases, compared to 48.6% identified using the psychiatric interview. A cut-off point between six and seven, was found to yield a sensitivity of 93%, a specificity of 70%, and a misclassification rate of 19%. Females had more psychiatric morbidity than males.
Conclusion:
The validity indices and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis support the usefulness of the SRQ as a cost-effective screening instrument for psychiatric morbidity in a two-stage large population research.
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