Citation

Jang SH, Woo YS, Hong JW, Yoon BH, Hwang TY, Kim MD, Lee SY, Bahk WM. Gen. Hosp. Psychiatry 2017; 46: 62-67.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Electronic address: wmbahk@catholic.ac.kr.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2017.03.006

PMID

28622818

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: This is a cross-sectional study using a free depression and suicide screening smartphone application, which contains the data from the Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression (CES-D) and a Suicide Behaviors Questionnaire-Revised (SBQ-R).

METHOD: The free application was downloaded worldwide from Apple's App Store and Android Market, and the participants who downloaded the application were actively measured.

RESULTS: The subjects totaled 208,683 men and women. 72.6% of the subjects were females, and 81.4% of the subjects were aged between 10 and 29years. In total, 25.7% of the participants were recorded CES-D positive, and there were differences among the groups based on sex (χ2=1065.82, p<0.001), age (χ2=1420.75, p<0.001), and psychiatric history (χ2=1502.21, p<0.001). The highest score of CES-D, 40.69±15.79 and that of SBQ-R, 13.68±4.97 was reported by the participants with a history of schizophrenia. The characteristics associated with suicide were as follows: depression (OR 8.92, 95% CI: 8.71-9.13), female (OR 1.39, 95% CI: 1.36-1.43), 30-49 age group (OR 2.51, 95% CI: 2.29-2.72), 50 or older age group (OR 1.48, 95% CI: 1.35-1.61), and psychiatric history (OR 1.98, 95% CI: 1.89-2.06).

CONCLUSION: The smartphone application may be a useful tool for screening depression and suicide.

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Language: en

Keywords

Depression; Past psychiatric history; Smartphone application; Suicide