Inventário de Depressão em Transtornos Neurológicos para a Epilepsia (IDTN-E): versão brasileira de um instrumento de rastreamento

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Guilherme Nogueira Mendes de
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: Araujo Filho, Gerardo Maria de [UNIFESP], Kummer, Arthur, Salgado, João Vinícius, Portela, Eduardo Jardel, Sousa-Pereira, Sílvio Roberto, Teixeira, Antonio Lúcio [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1676-26492011000200004; http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/6212
• topic: epilepsy; depression; screening; diagnosis; epilepsia; depressão; rastreamento; diagnóstico

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.