Multiple Comorbidities of 21 Psychological Disorders and Relationships With Psychosocial Variables: A Study of the Online Assessment and Diagnostic System Within a Web-Based Population (original) (raw)

“…The e-PASS is the assessment module in Anxiety Online 26 PASS with a structured clinical interview serving as the gold standard 28 and an analysis of e-PASS diagnostic comorbidities confirmed previous research results. 29 The e-PASS was completed times between October 2009 and June 2013 by clients aged 18 to 64. It was completed by 15605 separate individuals with 94.5% of these people completing the e-PASS only once, 4.4% completing it twice, 0.7% completing it thrice and 0.4% completing it more than 3 times with a maximum of 7 times.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

“…Lifelong medication, risk of various complications, and heavy care burdens result in psychosocial stress in patients with diabetes mellitus, which is detrimental to mental health and often lead to depression ( 1 ). About 30% of diabetes patients experience varying degree of depression ( 2 , 3 ), and therefore have worse outcomes ( 4 , 5 ). The pathological mechanisms underlying depression are complex and still not fully understood.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

“…One of the largest barriers to developing care pathways, however, is the gap between patients' common diagnostic presentations and the treatment research literature. Patients often present for treatment with a variety of comorbid diagnoses (Al-Asadi et al, 2015), but most evidence-based psychological treatments are designed to target specific disorders (APA, Division 12). These treatments may be ineffective for providers because they require expertise in a different treatment for each disorder, placing an unreasonable training burden on providers.…”

Section: Enhancing Quality Through Integrated Care and Transdiagnostimentioning