Brief Screen to Identify 5 of the Most Common Forms of Psychosocial Distress in Cardiac Patients

Abstract

Overall, the STOP-D performs very well when compared with other longer and validated measures. The STOP-D is a 5-item self-report measure, which provides severity scores for: depression, anxiety, stress, anger, and poor social support. The STOP-D is self-administered and takes between 1 and 2 minutes to fill out, gives valid severity scores on 5 key areas of psychological distress (depression, anxiety, stress, anger, and poor social support), requires no scoring, and is free to use.

Screening for Depression in Cardiac Rehabilitation

“…46 Moreover, the Screening Tool for Psychological Distress has been found to compare well with other longer and validated measures, including the BDI, 42 and has the advantage of consideration of other psychosocial hazards known to affect outcome. 6 Contrary to the above scales, the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale 43 has not, to our knowledge, been validated in a cardiac population.…”

“…Tools reported by Polyzotis et al 36 included the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, 40 the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), 41 and the Screening Tool for Psychological Distress. 42 The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale was the most commonly used tool, with 60% of programs that screened reporting its use. Zullo et al 35 reported the use of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale 43 primarily, and "other depression scales."…”

Anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder in cardiac patients

“…For example, a screening tool for psychological distress (STOP-D) has been designed specifically for use in cardiology settings (Young et al, 2007). This is a brief 5-item measure where patients rate their levels of depression, anxiety, stress, anger and support.…”

Self-Care Behaviour and Factors Associated with Patient Outcomes Following Same-Day Discharge Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

“…Participants underwent a short screening for mood disorders using the STOP-Distress (STOP-D) Screening for Psychoemotional Disorders, an instrument validated against various standard psychological screening instruments for depression, anxiety, stress, anger, and lack of social support, and used widely in the study centre [24]. The STOP-D instrument includes five stand alone items scored between 0 and 9, with a cut-off score set for each of the five dimensions.…”