Screening tools

Question 1

Common screening questions employed by primary care providers for PTSD include…..

Answer 1

(a) How do you feel when you recall the event?
(b) Do you experience dreams or flashbacks about it?
(c) Do you find yourself avoiding people or activities you associate with the event?
(d) Do you find yourself forgetting things from that period?
(e) Do you find yourself carefully looking around when you are in a public place?
(f) Do you have nightmares about the event?
(g) Do you try hard to not think about the event?
(h) Do you ever feel numb or detached from people around you?
(i) Do you feel guilty or unable to stop blaming yourself or others about the event?

Question 2

Screening tools for psychiatric causes can help differentiate between an eating disorder and other causes of weight loss:
(SCOFF)

Answer 2

(a) Do you make yourself Sick because you feel uncomfortably full?
(b) Do you worry you have lost Control over how much you eat?
(c) Have you recently lost more than One stone (14 pounds) in a three month period?
(d) Do you believe yourself to be Fat when others say you are thin?
(e) Would you say that Food dominates your life?

Question 3

What are the “CAGE questions”?
What are they used for?

Answer 3

a) Have you ever felt you should Cut down on your drinking?
b) Have people Annoyed you by criticizing your drinking?
c) Have you ever felt bad or Guilty about your drinking?
d) Have you ever taken a drink first thing in the morning (Eye opener) to steady your nerves or get rid of a hangover?

Alcohol use disorder

Question 4

What does the “DIG FAST” acronym stand for?
What is if for?

Answer 4

D - Distractibility
I - Indiscretions
G - Grandiosity
F - Flight of ideas
A - Activity increase
S - Sleeplessness
T – Talkativeness
-used to remember the symptoms of mania

Question 5

What does the “SIGECAPS” stand for and what is it used to screen for?

Answer 5

S- Sleep changes: Increased during day or decreased at night
I- Interest (loss): Of interest in activities that used to interest them
G- Guilt (worthless): Depressed people tend to devalue themselves
E- Energy (lack): Common presenting symptom is fatigue
C- Concentration: Reduced concentration and cognition
A- Appetite: Usually declined appetite. Sometimes also increased
P- Psychomotor agitation: Anxious feelings or lethargic feelings
S- Suicide/death preoccupation
-quickly screen for depression when forms such as PHQ-9 are not utilized or available

Question 6

What is the GAD 7 questions?

Answer 6

Over the last two weeks, how often have you been bothered by:
1) Feeling nervous, anxious, or on edge?
2) Not being able to stop or control worrying?
3) Worrying too much about different things?
4) Trouble relaxing
5) Being so restless that it is hard to sit still?
6) Becoming easily annoyed or irritable?
7) Feeling afraid as if something awful might happen?