Are we overestimating the prevalence of depression in chronic illness using questionnaires? Meta-analytic evidence in obstructive sleep apnoea. | Zendy

S. Nanthakumar | Zendy; Romola S. Bucks | Zendy; Timothy Skinner | Zendy

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Are we overestimating the prevalence of depression in chronic illness using questionnaires? Meta-analytic evidence in obstructive sleep apnoea.

Author(s) -

S. Nanthakumar,

Romola S. Bucks,

Timothy Skinner

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

health psychology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.548

H-Index - 164

eISSN - 1930-7810

pISSN - 0278-6133

DOI - 10.1037/hea0000280

Subject(s) - depression (economics) , anhedonia , medicine , epidemiology , psychiatry , meta analysis , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , economics , macroeconomics

Depression is common in chronic illness, albeit prevalence can be highly variable. This variability may be a function of symptom overlap between depression and chronic illness. Using Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA) as an exemplar, this meta-analysis explored whether the proportion of overlapping symptoms between OSA and depression, within different depression questionnaires, moderates prevalence estimates.

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