title: Screening for Depression and Anxiety in Epilepsy.
abstract: Depression and anxiety are common comorbidities of epilepsy and have far-reaching effects on patients, family, and the health care system. Although the burden of these conditions is high, a majority of cases are undetected and untreated. Screening tools can be a fast way to establish the presence of clinically relevant symptoms of depression and anxiety in epilepsy. Depression tools have been extensively studied in epilepsy, although no scale has been definitively established for use in this population. Anxiety has been understudied in epilepsy; few scales exist to measure anxiety and these scales have not been well validated.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Health Sciences Centre, College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, 820 Sherbrook Street, MS740B, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3A 1R9, Canada.
authors.forename: Kirsten M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Fiest
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Health Sciences, Foothills Medical Centre, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, 3rd Floor TRW Building, 3280 Hospital Drive Northwest, Calgary, Alberta T2N 4Z6, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research & Education, Foothills Medical Centre, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, 3rd Floor TRW Building, 3280 Hospital Drive Northwest, Calgary, Alberta T2N 4Z6, Canada.
authors.forename: Scott B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Patten
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Foothills Medical Centre, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, 1403 29 Street Northwest, Calgary, Alberta T2N 2T9, Canada; Department of Community Health Sciences, O'Brien Institute for Public Health, Foothills Medical Centre, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, 1403 29 Street Northwest, Calgary, Alberta T2N 2T9, Canada. Electronic address: nathalie.jette@albertahealthservices.ca.
authors.forename: Nathalie
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Jetté
mesh_terms: D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*
keywords: Anxiety; Depression; Epilepsy; Measurement; Screening