Conduct Materials

The NDSD office provides registered screening sites with a downloadable Implementation and Promotion Guide and other materials for conducting a public outreach and screening event, including:

• tips from successful sites,
• suggestions for recruiting special populations,
• how to target ready-made audiences, and
• publicity materials you can download and customize for use in your community

Community Kit
Description: The most comprehensive of the kits, it provides screening, education and promotion materials for up to 50 NDSD participants.
Materials include: Event Planning and Publicity Guides, media templates, screening forms, scoring instructions and referral guidelines, educational brochures, posters, banner, video, and clinician education materials. The community kit includes the screening tools for depression (HANDS), bipolar disorder (MDQ), generalized anxiety disorder (CD-GAD), and post-traumatic stress disorder (SPRINT) .

Refresher Kit
Description: For sites that don’t need the full community kit, the refresher kit provides the essential elements needed to conduct a NDSD screening and outreach event for 50 participants.
Materials include:  Event Planning and Publicity Guides, media templates, screening forms, scoring instructions and referral guidelines, educational brochures, posters and clinician education materials. The refresher kit includes the screening tools for depression (HANDS), bipolar disorder (MDQ), generalized anxiety disorder (CD-GAD), and post-traumatic stress disorder (SPRINT) .

Downloadable Community Kit
Description: All of the key NDSD education, screening and promotion materials in downloadable format.
Materials include: Event Planning and Publicity Guides, media templates, screening forms, scoring instructions and referral guidelines, educational brochures, posters, banner, video, and clinician education materials. The community kit includes the screening tools for depression (HANDS), bipolar disorder (MDQ), generalized anxiety disorder (CD-GAD), and post-traumatic stress disorder (SPRINT) .

Spanish Kit: Limited supply – available until run out
Description: Spanish language screening and education materials for up to 25 Spanish-speaking participants in an NDSD outreach and screening event.
Materials include: Event Planning and Publicity Guides and clinician education materials, media templates, Spanish screening forms, scoring instructions and referral guidelines, Spanish educational brochures, posters and video. The Spanish kit includes the screening tools for depression (HANDS), bipolar disorder (MDQ), generalized anxiety disorder (CD-GAD), and post-traumatic stress disorder (SPRINT).

Older Adult/Bingo Kit: Limited supply – available until run out
Description: Screening and education materials that specifically address the needs of older adults – quantity of materials for screening up to 50 older adults.
Materials include: “Feel Good Bingo” game (Bingo boards, cards, hard candy and letter opener) , Event Planning and Publicity Guide, media templates, large-print screening forms, scoring instructions and referral guidelines, educational brochures that address issues of older adult mental health, posters, videos, and clinician education materials. The Older Adult/Bingo kit includes the screening tools for depression (HANDS), bipolar disorder (MDQ) and generalized anxiety disorder (CD-GAD).

SOS: Suicide Prevention Kit
Description: A prevention/intervention program for family and friends of depressed and suicidal individuals. Use on NDSD Mental Health Screening™ day  and throughout the year.
Materials Include: Educational video-the main teaching tool of program-with discussion guide, suicide risk questionnaire and educational flyers.

NDSD Online Screening (English and Spanish language)
No kit required. You will receive an email with instructions for setting up your online screening module, and links to downloadable promotion and clinician education materials.

NDSD Mental Health Screening™ Tools
Depression: HANDS^®
The HANDS^® is a validated depression screening instrument developed by Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry and Screening for Mental Health (Baer L, Jacobs DG, et al. Development of a Brief Screening Instrument: the HANDS. Psychotherapy Psychosomatic 2000; 69:35-41).

Bipolar Disorder: The Mood Disorder Questionnaire
The MDQ, developed by Robert Hirschfeld, M.D., is the only validated screening tool for bipolar disorder. It addresses behaviors and issues related to irritability, hyperactivity, sleep-patterns and recklessness, relationships with family and friends, and family history of mental illness. It has been used in other research endeavors and proven effective and efficient.  (Hirshfeld et al. Am J Psychiatry 2000; 157:1873-1875).

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD): CD-GAD
The Carroll-Davidson GAD scale (CD-GAD) is a 12-item screening tool for Generalized Anxiety Disorder co-authored in 2000 by B.J. Carroll, MD, PhD. and Jonathan R.T. Davidson, MD. The CD-GAD has a yes/no format and measures GAD symptoms occurring over the past six months.

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): SPRINT-4^©
The SPRINT-4 was developed by Jonathan Davidson, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center. The SPRINT-4 is a validated instrument that addresses intrusion, avoidance, numbing and hyper-arousal. (K.M. Connor and J.R.T. Davidson. SPRINT: A Brief Global Assessment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. International Clinical Psychopharmacology 2001, 16:279-284).