PHQ-9: sensitivity to change over time [PDF]
Malpass et al , in a mixed methods study assessing PHQ-9 scores and patients' experiences, report that patients found the PHQ-9 to be helpful,1 concurring with other recent qualitative work that suggested that patients viewed such measures as an ‘objective adjunct to medical judgement’.2 Unfortunately, the value of these observations rests entirely on ...
Isobel M Cameron +2 more
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PHQ-9 and PHQ-2 for Screening Depression in Chinese Rural Elderly.
ObjectivesThis study aimed to explore cut-off scores of the 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) and 2-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-2) for depression screening in Chinese rural elderly.MethodsA cross-sectional study was conducted on 839 ...
Zi-Wei Liu +5 more
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Psychometric analysis of the Patient Health Questionnaire in Danish patients with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (The DEFIB-WOMEN study) [PDF]
OBJECTIVE: To assess the psychometric properties of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), a measure of depressive symptoms, in a large Danish national cohort of patients with heart disease, implanted with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator ...
Christensen, Karl Bang +3 more
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Background: The brief Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) is commonly used to screen for depression with 10 often recommended as the cut-off score. We summarized the psychometric properties of the PHQ-9 across a range of studies and cut-off scores to ...
L. Manea, S. Gilbody, D. McMillan
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Validation of the PHQ-9 in adults with dissociative seizures [PDF]
The PHQ-9 is a self-administered depression screening instrument. Little is known about its utility and accuracy in detecting depression in adults with dissociative seizures (DS).Using the Mini - International Neuropsychiatric Interview as a reference, we evaluated the diagnostic accuracy of the PHQ-9 in adults with DS, and examined its convergent and ...
Lopez, M.B. +7 more
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Patient-reported outcome measures in community mental health teams: pragmatic evaluation of PHQ-9, GAD-7 and SWEMWBS. [PDF]
Aims and method We evaluated routine use, acceptability and response rates for the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), Generalised Anxiety Disorder Scale (GAD-7) and Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (SWEMWBS) within adult community ...
Altman +4 more
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Which PHQ-9 Items Can Effectively Screen for Suicide? Machine Learning Approaches
(1) Background: The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) is a tool that screens patients for depression in primary care settings. In this study, we evaluated the efficacy of PHQ-9 in evaluating suicidal ideation (2) Methods: A total of 8760 completed ...
Sunhae Kim, Hye-Kyung Lee, Kounseok Lee
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Background: Among the common mental disorders in societies, depression is one of the most common mental disorders that affects all groups and classes of society. Students are among the groups with the highest rates of depression.
Rasoul Mohamadian +8 more
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Are there researcher allegiance effects in diagnostic validation studies of the PHQ-9? : A systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether an authorship effect is found that leads to better performance in studies conducted by the original developers of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) (allegiant studies).
Boehnke, Jan Rasmus +4 more
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Depressive symptoms amongst people with podoconiosis and lower limb lymphoedema of other cause in Cameroon: a cross-sectional study [PDF]
Evidence is emerging that shows elevated mental distress and disorder amongst people with several neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). This study aimed to establish the prevalence of depressive symptoms amongst people with podoconiosis and lower limb ...
Beng, Amuam Andrew +6 more
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