Brief mental health disorder screening questionnaires and use with public safety personnel: A review

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dc.contributor.authorShields, Robyn, E.
dc.contributor.authorKorol, Stephanie
dc.contributor.authorCarleton, R. Nicholas
dc.contributor.authorMcElheran, Megan
dc.contributor.authorStelnicki, Andrea, M.
dc.contributor.authorGroll, Dianne
dc.contributor.authorAnderson, Gregory, S.
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-02T17:08:44Z
dc.date.available2023-03-02T17:08:44Z
dc.date.issued2021-04-03
dc.description© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).en_US
dc.description.abstractBrief 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 exam- ple, 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 men- tal 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 depres- sion (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.en_US
dc.description.authorstatusFacultyen_US
dc.description.peerreviewyesen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThe author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, author- ship, and/or publication of this article: G.S. Anderson received funding for this project through a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Catalyst Grant (FRN: 162525). R. Nicholas Carleton’s research is supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) by a New Investigator Salary Award. This research was also supported in part by a CIHR Catalyst Grant (FRN: 162545)en_US
dc.identifier.citationShields, R. E., Korol, S., Carleton, R. N., McElheran, M., Stelnicki, A. M., Groll, D., & Anderson, G. S. (2021). Brief mental health disorder screening questionnaires and use with public safety personnel: A review. International Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health, 18, 3743. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18073743en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18073743
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10294/15821
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Instituteen_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 United States*
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectbrief screening toolsen_US
dc.subjectpublic safety personnelen_US
dc.subjectmental disordersen_US
dc.subjectquestionnairesen_US
dc.subjectMDDen_US
dc.subjectGADen_US
dc.subjectpanic disorderen_US
dc.subjectPTSDen_US
dc.subjectalcohol use disordeen_US
dc.titleBrief mental health disorder screening questionnaires and use with public safety personnel: A reviewen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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