Brief Mental Health Disorder Screening Questionnaires and Use with Public Safety Personnel: A Review
Brief mental health disorder screening questionnaires (SQs) are used by psychiatrists, physicians, researchers, psychologists, and other mental health professionals and may provide an efficient method to guide clinicians to query symptom areas requiring further assessment. For example, annual screen...
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doaj-08b2f0831f7a4123a1dd2f2d1a1878f82021-04-03T23:00:11ZengMDPI AGInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health1661-78271660-46012021-04-01183743374310.3390/ijerph18073743Brief Mental Health Disorder Screening Questionnaires and Use with Public Safety Personnel: A ReviewRobyn E. Shields0Stephanie Korol1R. Nicholas Carleton2Megan McElheran3Andrea M. Stelnicki4Dianne Groll5Gregory S. Anderson6Department of Psychology, Anxiety and Illness Behaviours Laboratory, University of Regina, Regina, SK S4S 0A2, Canada, CanadaDepartment of Psychology, Anxiety and Illness Behaviours Laboratory, University of Regina, Regina, SK S4S 0A2, Canada, CanadaDepartment of Psychology, Anxiety and Illness Behaviours Laboratory, University of Regina, Regina, SK S4S 0A2, Canada, CanadaWayfound Mental Health Group, Calgary, AB T2R 1J5, CanadaDepartment of Psychology, Anxiety and Illness Behaviours Laboratory, University of Regina, Regina, SK S4S 0A2, Canada, CanadaDepartments of Psychiatry and Psychology, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON N2L 3C5, CanadaFaculty of Science, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC V2C 0C8, CanadaBrief mental health disorder screening questionnaires (SQs) are used by psychiatrists, physicians, researchers, psychologists, and other mental health professionals and may provide an efficient method to guide clinicians to query symptom areas requiring further assessment. For example, annual screening has been used to help identify military personnel who may need help. Nearly half (44.5%) of Canadian public safety personnel (PSP) screen positive for one or more mental health disorder(s); as such, regular mental health screenings for PSP may be a valuable way to support mental health. The following review was conducted to (1) identify existing brief mental health disorder SQs; (2) review empirical evidence of the validity of identified SQs; (3) identify SQs validated within PSP populations; and (4) recommend appropriately validated brief screening questionnaires for five common mental health disorders (i.e., generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), major depressive depression (MDD), panic disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, alcohol use disorder). After reviewing the psychometric properties of the identified brief screening questionnaires, we recommend the following four brief screening tools for use with PSP: the Patient Health Questionnaire-4 (screening for MDD and GAD), the Brief Panic Disorder Symptom Screen—Self-Report, the Short-Form Posttraumatic Checklist-5, and the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test-Consumption.https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/7/3743brief screening toolspublic safety personnelmental disordersquestionnairesMDDGAD |
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Robyn E. Shields Stephanie Korol R. Nicholas Carleton Megan McElheran Andrea M. Stelnicki Dianne Groll Gregory S. Anderson Brief Mental Health Disorder Screening Questionnaires and Use with Public Safety Personnel: A Review International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health brief screening tools public safety personnel mental disorders questionnaires MDD GAD |
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Robyn E. Shields Stephanie Korol R. Nicholas Carleton Megan McElheran Andrea M. Stelnicki Dianne Groll Gregory S. Anderson |
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Brief Mental Health Disorder Screening Questionnaires and Use with Public Safety Personnel: A Review |
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health |
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Brief mental health disorder screening questionnaires (SQs) are used by psychiatrists, physicians, researchers, psychologists, and other mental health professionals and may provide an efficient method to guide clinicians to query symptom areas requiring further assessment. For example, annual screening has been used to help identify military personnel who may need help. Nearly half (44.5%) of Canadian public safety personnel (PSP) screen positive for one or more mental health disorder(s); as such, regular mental health screenings for PSP may be a valuable way to support mental health. The following review was conducted to (1) identify existing brief mental health disorder SQs; (2) review empirical evidence of the validity of identified SQs; (3) identify SQs validated within PSP populations; and (4) recommend appropriately validated brief screening questionnaires for five common mental health disorders (i.e., generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), major depressive depression (MDD), panic disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, alcohol use disorder). After reviewing the psychometric properties of the identified brief screening questionnaires, we recommend the following four brief screening tools for use with PSP: the Patient Health Questionnaire-4 (screening for MDD and GAD), the Brief Panic Disorder Symptom Screen—Self-Report, the Short-Form Posttraumatic Checklist-5, and the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test-Consumption. |
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