Affiliation:
1. University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2. University of California, San Francisco, USA
Abstract
Abstract. This study evaluates the utility of Muñoz's Mood Screener for detection of major depressive episodes in a nonclinical Spanish population. The Mood Screener was administered by face-to-face interview to 554 subjects (65.9% women; age 18-34 years) who were recruited by stratified random sampling from a population of 27,587 university students. Thereafter, two expert clinicians who were blind to the Mood Screener results independently administered a clinical interview (SCID-CV) as an aid in evaluating the subjects for the same disorder. κ for agreement between the clinicians' consensus diagnosis and the Mood Screener was 0.758, and with the clinicians' diagnosis as reference the Mood Screener had a sensitivity of 0.969, a specificity of 0.967, positive and negative predictive values of 0.646 and 0.998, respectively, and positive and negative likelihood ratios of 29.75 and 0.032, respectively. These results support the interviewer-administered Mood Screener as a valid instrument for screening for major depressive episodes in the target population.
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