Screening Tool: Choose one of the following topics and find a screening tool on the topic to review. Please be sure to read the Discussion Board assignment directions for Week 2.
Topics to choose from:
- Assessments for Adolescents(for example, eating disorders, attention deficit disorder, depression, anxiety, suicide risk )
- Childhood Maltreatment Screening Tool
- Health Related Quality of Life Screening Tool
Points: 60 points
Assignment Requirements
- Your course faculty will provide you with topic/s for the Week 2 Discussion Board. You will need to check the NR503 course Announcements for the topic/s document for this Week 2 Discussion Board regarding screening.
- Next, choose a diagnostic or screening method (related to your choice from the list of health issues above). You may use one of the following web sites to locate a screening tool, a scholarly article, or a tool from a professional web site of your choice (for example, from the American Psychological Association).
Solution:
The selected health condition in adolescent assessment is eating disorders (e.g. anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder) and the screening tool is the SCOFF questionnaire. This question is a simple, 5-question screening measure that assesses the possibility of an eating disorder in a patient. SCOFF is a synonym for Sick, Control, One, Fat, and Food) (Cowden, 2020). It was developed in 1999 in the United Kingdom. The questionnaire questions include “
Do you make yourself Sick (induce vomiting) because you feel uncomfortably full?
Do you worry you have lost control over how much you eat?