%0 Journal Article
%T Invent¨¢rio de Depress£¿o em Transtornos Neurol¨®gicos para a Epilepsia (IDTN-E): vers£¿o brasileira de um instrumento de rastreamento
%A Oliveira
%A Guilherme Nogueira Mendes de
%A Ara¨²jo Filho
%A Gerardo Maria de
%A Kummer
%A Arthur
%A Salgado
%A Jo£¿o Vin¨ªcius
%A Portela
%A Eduardo Jardel
%A Sousa-Pereira
%A S¨ªlvio Roberto
%A Teixeira
%A Ant£¿nio L¨²cio
%J Journal of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology
%D 2011
%I Liga Brasileira de Epilepsia
%R 10.1590/S1676-26492011000200004
%X introduction: depression is the most common psychiatric comorbidity in epilepsy, being its identification frequently neglected in most epilepsy centers. objective: to evaluate the performance of the brazilian version of the neurological disorders depression inventory for epilepsy (nddi-e) in a group of patients from a specialized center. methods: the recently validated brazilian version of the nddi-e was applied to a group of 142 outpatients with epilepsy. we used the mini-plus as a gold standard to diagnosis major depressive episode. results: forty patients (28.2%) were depressed at the time of evaluation. the roc curve analysis indicated that the cutoff at 15 (>15) represented the greatest dichotomy between depressed and nondepressed (sensitivity 70.0%, specificity of 87.3%, positive predictive value of 68.3% and negative predictive value of 88.1%). the use of lower cutoff points may eventually be adopted to provide greater sensitivity to the instrument. conclusion: the brazilian version of nddi-e is a sensitive and practical tool that can help in tracking depression in epilepsy in order to reduce its underdiagnosis.
%K epilepsy
%K depression
%K screening
%K diagnosis.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1676-26492011000200004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en