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Diabetes Care 31:e15 2008
DOI: 10.2337/dc07-2209
© 2008 by the American Diabetes Association
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Online Letters: Comments and Responses

Routine Psychological Screening in Youth With Type 1 Diabetes and Their Parents: a Notion Whose Time Has Come?

Response to de Wit and Snoek

Fergus Cameron, Elisabeth Northam, Geoffery Ambler and Denis Daneman

From the Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Royal Children's Hospital, Victoria, Australia

Address correspondence to Dr. Fergus Cameron, Royal Children's Hospital, Department of Endocrinology & Diabetes, Flemington Road, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia. E-mail: fergus.cameron{at}rch.org.au

We agree with de Wit and Snoek's emphasis on the importance of discriminating between mental health screening in individuals and monitoring of health-related quality of life (HRQOL). As they describe, screening is aimed at case ascertainment, whereas monitoring is designed to track progress. Notwithstanding this important distinction, there is considerable overlap between various mental health/behavioral and HRQOL measures and, as we have previously demonstrated, it is possible to use HRQOL and behavioral tools in sequence in a screening protocol (3). This is not to imply that our strategy is the only way to screen but simply to point out that screening strategies do exist. Alternative tools such as those proposed by de Wit and Snoek appear to be equally valid.

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  1. de Wit M, Snoek FJ: Routine psychological screening in youth with type 1 diabetes and their parents: a notion whose time has come (Letter)? Diabetes Care 31:e14, 2008. DOI:10.2337/dc07-2071[Free Full Text]
  2. Cameron FJ, Northam EA, Ambler GR, Daneman D: Routine psychological screening in youth with type 1 diabetes and their parents: a notion whose time has come? Diabetes Care 30:2716–2724, 2007[Free Full Text]
  3. Cameron FJ, Smidts D, Hesketh K, Wake M, Northam EA: Early detection of emotional and behavioural problems in children with diabetes: the validity of the Child Health Questionaire as a screening instrument. Diabet Med 20:646–650, 2003[Medline]

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