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Elizabeth A O'Connor1, Michelle L Henninger1, Leslie A Perdue1
1Kaiser Permanente Evidence-based Practice Center, Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, Portland, Oregon.
JAMA
|June 20, 2023
Resumen
La detección de ansiedad en la atención primaria no mostró beneficios claros, pero el tratamiento es efectivo. La herramienta de detección GAD-7 demostró una precisión aceptable para detectar el trastorno de ansiedad generalizada.
Área de la Ciencia:
- Medicina de Atención Primaria
- La psiquiatría
- Práctica basada en la evidencia
Sus antecedentes:
- La ansiedad es prevalente en los entornos de atención primaria, lo que contribuye a una carga significativa para los pacientes.
- Las estrategias efectivas de detección y tratamiento son cruciales para controlar la ansiedad en esta población.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Evaluar los beneficios y los daños de la detección y el tratamiento de la ansiedad en la atención primaria.
- Evaluar la precisión de los instrumentos utilizados para la detección de la ansiedad.
Principales métodos:
- Revisión sistemática de estudios originales en inglés y revisiones sistemáticas.
- Buscado MEDLINE, PsychINFO y la Biblioteca Cochrane hasta noviembre de 2022.
- Se incluyeron estudios sobre el cribado, el tratamiento y la precisión del diagnóstico; la calidad se evaluó de forma independiente.
Principales resultados:
- Dos estudios de cribado no encontraron ningún beneficio. El instrumento de Trastorno de Ansiedad Generalizada (GAD)-7 mostró una precisión adecuada (sensibilidad 0,79, especificidad 0,89).
- Un cuerpo sustancial de evidencia apoya el beneficio del tratamiento de la ansiedad, con intervenciones psicológicas que muestran una diferencia media estandarizada agrupada de -0.41 en la gravedad de los síntomas.
- Existen pruebas limitadas para otros instrumentos de detección y trastornos de ansiedad.
Conclusiones:
- No existe suficiente evidencia con respecto a los beneficios o daños de los programas de detección de ansiedad.
- La evidencia clara confirma los beneficios del tratamiento de la ansiedad.
- Algunos instrumentos de detección de ansiedad, como el GAD-7, demuestran una precisión aceptable para detectar el trastorno de ansiedad generalizada.
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