Florida, Sept. 18 -- : In order to more effectively identify depression in teenagers with Type 1 diabetes mellitus, a new study published in the American Diabetes Association journal Diabetes Care recommended that the score findings of widely used depression-screening techniques be carefully modified (T1D).
The study is the first to thoroughly compare the effectiveness of such screeners to diagnostic interviews for this demographic. The study was conducted by specialists from Primary Children's Hospital and Nemours Children's Health in Jacksonville. When both researchers were associated with the University of Kansas Medical Center, which funded the project, data were collected together with Children's Mercy Kansas City.
Previous studies h...