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Parental report version of the Mood Disorder Questionnaire for adolescents has good sensitivity and specificity for diagnosing bipolar disorder in psychiatric outpatient clinics

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ebmh.10.1.9

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    Wagner KD, Hirschfeld RMA, Emslie GJ, et al. Validation of the Mood Disorder Questionnaire for bipolar disorders in adolescents. J Clin Psychiatry 2006;67:827–30.OpenUrlPubMedWeb of Science

    Q What is the sensitivity and specificity of the three different versions of the Mood Disorder Questionnaire-Adolescent version for the diagnosis of bipolar disorders?

    METHODS

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    Diagnostic cohort study.

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    Four outpatient psychiatric clinics, US; April 2002 to September 2003.

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    104 adolescents (mean age 14.5 years; range 12–17 years; 54% female) attending outpatient psychiatric clinics.

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    Mood Disorder Questionnaire-Adolescent version (MDQ-A), which consists of 13 yes/no items about the presence of manic symptoms for periods of a week or more. Positive answers are summed to give a maximum score of 13. Three …

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    Footnotes

    • For correspondence: Karen Dineen Wagner, MD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, 301 University Boulevard, Galveston, TX 77555-0188, USA; kwagner{at}utmb.edu

    • Source of funding: GlaxoSmithKline.