Depression Screening Day Adds Anxiety Disorder Assessment
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Depression Screening Day Adds Anxiety Disorder AssessmentEve Bender Primary care patients and people with anxiety disorders could benefit from new and improved screening during National Depression Screening Day, to be held this year on October 10. People visiting thousands of screening sites on this yearâs National Depression Screening Day (NDSD) will for the first time receive screening for generalized anxiety disorder and PTSD, in addition to mood disorders, such as depression and bipolar disorder. The new and improved screening form incorporates elements of four different diagnostic tools, including the Harvard Department of Psychiatry/National Depression Screening Day Depression Test, Mood Disorder Questionnaire, Carroll-Davidson Generalized Anxiety Disorder Screen, and SPRINT-4 questionnaire for PTSD, which was created specifically for NDSD by Jonathan Davidson, M.D. The screening will take place on October 10, just a month after the one-year anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., and the related plane crash in Pennsylvania. Each year since 1991, Screening for Mental Health Inc., a nonprofit agency based in Massachusetts, has organized NDSD. The event, which is held at nearly 6,000 screening sites throughout the United States and Canada, aims to help those with mood and anxiety