Author(s): Rice DB; Kloda LA; Levis B; Qi B; Kingsland E; Thombs BD;

Objective: Database searches for studies of diagnostic test accuracy are notoriously difficult to filter, highly resource-intensive, and a potential barrier to quality evidence synthesis. We examined published meta-analyses of depression screening tool accuracy to evaluate the (1) proportion of included primary studies found in any online database in the ...

Article GUID: 27411746

Author(s): Delisle VC; Gumuchian ST; Kloda LA; Boruff J; El-Baalbaki G; Körner A; Malcarne VL; Thombs BD;

Objective: Peer facilitators play an important role in determining the success of many support groups for patients with medical illnesses. However, many facilitators do not receive training for their role and report a number of challenges in fulfilling their responsibilities. The ...

Article GUID: 27856483

Author(s): Rice DB; Kloda LA; Shrier I; Thombs BD;

Objective: Concerns have been raised regarding the quality and completeness of abstract reporting in evidence reviews, but this had not been evaluated in meta-analyses of diagnostic accuracy. Our objective was to evaluate reporting quality and completeness in abstracts of systematic reviews with meta-analyses of depression screening tool accuracy, using t ...

Article GUID: 27864250

Author(s): Roseman M; Saadat N; Riehm KE; Kloda LA; Boruff J; Ickowicz A; Baltzer F; Katz LY; Patten SB; Rousseau C; Thombs BD;

Objective: Depression screening among children and adolescents is controversial. In 2009, the United States Preventive Services Task Force first recommended routine depression screening for adolescents, and this recommendation was reiterated in 2016. However, no randomized controlled trials (RCTs ...

Article GUID: 28851234

Author(s): Pourali M; Townsend C; Kross A; Guindon A; Jaeger JAG;

The dataset presented here provides the degree of urban sprawl across 33 Census Metropolitan Areas (CMAs) in Canada of 2011 together with the 469 Census Subdivisions (CSDs) located within the 2011 boundaries of the CMAs, for the years 1991, 2001, and 2011. The dataset contains the values of weighted urban proliferation (WUP) and weighted sprawl per capita ...

Article GUID: 35242923

Author(s): Thombs BD; Levis B; Lyubenova A; Neupane D; Negeri Z; Wu Y; Sun Y; He C; Krishnan A; Vigod SN; Bhandari PM; Imran M; Rice DB; Azar M; Chiovitti MJ; Saadat N; Riehm KE; Boruff JT; Cuijpers P; Gilbody S; Ioannidis JPA; Kloda LA; Patten SB; ...

Objective: The Maternal Mental Health in Canada, 2018/2019, survey reported that 18% of 7,085 mothers who recently gave birth reported "feelings consistent with postpartum depression" based on scores =7 on a 5-item version of the Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale (EPDS-5). The EPDS-5 was desi ...

Article GUID: 33104415

Author(s): Wu Y; Levis B; Ioannidis JPA; Benedetti A; Thombs BD;

Introduction: Three previous individual participant data meta-analyses (IPDMAs) reported that, compared to the Structured Clinical Interview for the DSM (SCID), alternative reference standards, primarily the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) and the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI), tended to misclassify major depress ...

Article GUID: 32814337

Author(s): Kloda LA, Boruff JT, Cavalcante AS

J Med Libr Assoc. 2020 Apr;108(2):185-194 Authors: Kloda LA, Boruff JT, Cavalcante AS

Article GUID: 32256230

Author(s): Levis B; Benedetti A; Ioannidis JPA; Sun Y; Negeri Z; He C; Wu Y; Krishnan A; Bhandari PM; Neupane D; Imran M; Rice DB; Riehm KE; Saadat N; Azar M; Boruff J; Cuijpers P; Gilbody S; Kloda LA; McMillan D; Patten SB; Shrier I; Ziegelstein R ...

Objectives: Depression symptom questionnaires are not for diagnostic classification. Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) scores =10 are nonetheless often used to estimate depression prevalence. We compared PHQ-9 =10 prevalence to Structured Clinical Interview for Diagnostic and Statistical Man ...

Article GUID: 32105798

Author(s): Wu Y; Levis B; Sun Y; Krishnan A; He C; Riehm KE; Rice DB; Azar M; Yan XW; Neupane D; Bhandari PM; Imran M; Chiovitti MJ; Saadat N; Boruff JT; Cuijpers P; Gilbody S; McMillan D; Ioannidis JPA; Kloda LA; Patten SB; Shrier I; Ziegelstein R ...

Objective: Two previous individual participant data meta-analyses (IPDMAs) found that different diagnostic interviews classify different proportions of people as having major depression overall or by symptom levels. We compared the odds of major depression classification across diagnostic intervi ...

Article GUID: 31911325

Author(s): Thombs BD; Levis AW; Azar M; Saadat N; Riehm KE; Sanchez TA; Chiovitti MJ; Rice DB; Levis B; Fedoruk C; Lyubenova A; Malo Vázquez de Lara AL; Kloda LA; Benedetti A; Shrier I; Platt RW; Kimmelman J;

Objectives: We evaluated whether sample sizes in different arms of two-arm parallel group randomized controlled trials of nonregulated interventions were systematically closer in size than would plausibly occur by chance if simple randomization had been applied. Study design and setting: We sear ...

Article GUID: 31866472