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Volume 2
Journal of Psychiatry and Mental Health Research
Psychiatry Nursing & Psychiatry 2019
June 17-18, 2019
Psychiatry & Mental health Nursing
Psychiatry and Mental Health
June 17-18, 2019 | Rome, Italy
4
th
World Congress on
2
nd
Global Experts Meeting on
&
Adult Depression Diagnostic Protocol (ADDP)
Fagner Alfredo Ardisson Cirino Campos
Government of the State of Acre, Brazil
D
epression is an underdiagnosed pathology in the health service, probably because health professionals
often have difficulty tracking it. There is a difference between sadness and depression, and diagnostic
standard taxonomies are difficult to handle. The present work aims to present the Protocol of Diagnosis of
Depression in Adults (ADDP). The ADDP was created by a RN and a Psychologist in the year 2015 and
consists of the brief systematization of information to identify the different depressive disorders of ICD-
10. It’s ADDP can be used by health professionals, through an evaluation of the interviewed patient, and
facilitates the diagnosis of depression. This was evaluated by a mental health team from a Psychosocial
Care Center (CAPS), a mental health service unit in the Brazilian Amazon region. This team validated that
ADDP is operative, feasible and easy to apply in the health service. Structurally, ADDP is divided into four
parts: (
I
) presentation of the fundamental and accessory symptoms of depression; (
II
) specification of non-
recurrent depressions, ie the first diagnosis of depression in the patient; and also the specification of recurrent
depression, when the patient has already had a depressive diagnosis and ends up having a relapse; (
III
)
presentation of persistent mood disorder (chronic formulations of depression); and (
IV
) presentation of other
mood disorders (unusual depressions). It is concluded that ADDP can facilitate the diagnosis of depression
in health services, being a low cost technology that will favor the rapid and effective diagnosis of depression.
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