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This article deals with the detection of depressive complaints in 10–11 year old children. The results of routine examinations of children by school nurses are compared with the screening results on the Short Depression Inventory for Children (SDIC). It was not possible to predict the presence of depressive complaints, as detected by the SDIC, from the items routinely collected by the nurses, despite the fact that some of these items were highly associated with the presence of depressive complaints. The interest in screening large populations of children for depressive complaints is discussed. Conditions for introducing mass-screening procedures are described.
Kroesbergen et al. (Fri,) studied this question.