Validity of self-reporting depression in the Tabari cohort study population.

Mehran Zarghami Fatemeh Taghizadeh Mahmood MoosazadehMotahhareh KheradmandKeyvan Heydari

Published in: Neuropsychopharmacology reports (2020)

The positive predictive value and sensitivity of self-reporting are insufficient in total population and females, and therefore self-reporting cannot detect depressed patients, but regarding to its average positive predictive value, perhaps, it can be used to identify nondepressant individuals.

Keyphrases

adverse drug
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease
peritoneal dialysis
depressive symptoms