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Question answered:21/02/08
We searched the NLH Mental Health Specialist Library and the TRIP, PsycInfo and Medline databases but found no screening instruments to assess a range of common mental disorders in primary care settings. However, the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health web site contains a list of validated assessment tools for individual common mental health problems. The Centre states:
“Tools for common mental health problems
This list is intended to support the development of Primary and Intermediate mental health care, by providing a resource of validated common mental health tools and questionnaires. We hope that regular use of these resources will help others reproduce care in Primary Care for people suffering with common mental health problems. They are also an adjunct to the developments in the nGMS (GP) contract quality and outcomes framework concerning depression. We believe that all of these questionnaires are sufficiently ‘user friendly’ to be used during routine consultations. But we provide these details without recommendation or guidelines to use.”
Brief screening tools for depression, anxiety, alcoholism, eating disorders, OCD, body dysmorphic disorder, PTSD, dementia and risk of suicide are given on the web site. [1 - 3]
References
1. Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health. Brief screening tools for depression. (http://www.scmh.org.uk/80256FBD004F6342/vWeb/wpKHAL6PUL5Z)
2. Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health. Useful screening tools for other problems. (http://www.scmh.org.uk/80256FBD004F6342/vWeb/wpKHAL6RZF8X)
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