Despite the recent establishment of the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme, and the consequently limited direct engagement of primary care in administering screening for colorectal cancer, there will inevitably be ongoing demands on GPs to provide information and advice about CRC screening.
[ 15, 16] It is a self administered screening test for detecting poor mental health in the general population.
Therefore, an economic and easily administered screening instrument for anxiety disorders can serve as an important first step towards the identification of psychopathology and indicate the need of treatment in otherwise undiagnosed children and adolescents.
28 To the extent that these instruments are valid, they can identify two types of people: those who already have diabetes whether or not they know it (hence the questionnaire may serve as a self administered screening tool for undiagnosed diabetes) and those at high risk of developing diabetes that is, it may also serve as a prediction tool for future diabetes.
Identifying children with childhood-onset neurodevelopmental problems (NDPs, defined here as autism spectrum disorders [ASDs], attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder [AD/HD], tic disorders [TDs], learning disorders [LDs] and development coordination disorder), using easily administered screening instruments, is a prerequisite for epidemiological research.
There are today many established rating scales and clinical instruments to assess NDPs, but there is still a need for an easily administered screening tool that covers the whole field of developmental problems, and that assesses not only caseness, but also sub-threshold traits and overlapping conditions.
A study was conducted to develop a short, easy to administer screening tool useful for stratifying women with unexplained menorrhagia for hemostatic testing for underlying bleeding disorders.
Second, many jurisdictions used telephone consultation programs (with physician- and nurse-staffed help lines) and on-line self-administered screening for ILI.
In most cases, physicians and nurses can administer a screening for depressive symptoms and offer guidance about selecting a therapist or seeking counseling for particular issues.
In addition, the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS) were administered to screen for psychological disturbances.
An extensive phone questionnaire was administered to screen for past history of psychiatric or neurological disorders.
