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      Validation of Muñoz's Mood Screener in a Nonclinical Spanish Population

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          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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          Journal
          jpa
          European Journal of Psychological Assessment
          Hogrefe Publishing
          1015-5759
          January 2008
          : 24
          : 1
          : 57-64
          Affiliations
          [ 1 ] University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
          [ 2 ] University of California, San Francisco, USA
          Author notes
          Vazquez Fernando L., Departamento de Psicología Clínica y Psicobiología Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Campus Universitario Sur, 15782, Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Spain, pcfer@ 123456usc.es
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          jpa2401057
          10.1027/1015-5759.24.1.57
          90b388da-82ab-45c5-b673-75ae89b1e1eb
          Copyright @ 2008
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          Assessment, Evaluation & Research methods,Psychology,General behavioral science
          questionnaire,screening,depression,mood,sensitivity and specificity,diagnosis

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