Norms and T-scores for screeners of alcohol use, depression and anxiety in the population of Suriname

There is a considerable gap between care provision and the demand for care for common mental disorders in low-and-middle-income countries. Screening for these disorders, e.g., in primary care, will help to close this gap. However, appropriate norms and threshold values for screeners of common mental...

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Published in:Frontiers in psychiatry 2023-04, Vol.14, p.1088696-1088696
Main Authors: de Beurs, Edwin, Jadnanansing, Raj, Etwaroo, Kajal, Blankers, Matthijs, Bipat, Robbert, Peen, Jaap, Dekker, Jack
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
alcohol use disorder
anxiety
depression
norms
Psychiatry
screening
T-scores
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Summary:There is a considerable gap between care provision and the demand for care for common mental disorders in low-and-middle-income countries. Screening for these disorders, e.g., in primary care, will help to close this gap. However, appropriate norms and threshold values for screeners of common mental disorders are lacking. In a survey study, we gathered data on frequently used screeners for alcohol use disorders, (AUDIT), depression, (CES-D), and anxiety disorders (GAD-7, ACQ, and BSQ) in a representative sample from Suriname, a non-Latin American Caribbean country. A stratified sampling method was used by random selection of 2,863 respondents from 5 rural and 12 urban resorts. We established descriptive statistics of all scale scores and investigated unidimensionality. Furthermore, we compared scores by gender, age-group, and education level with -test and Mann-Whitney U tests, using a significance level of  
ISSN:1664-0640
1664-0640
DOI:10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1088696