A new brief report published in JAMA Psychiatry finds that the instructions for the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ), a ...

A new systematic historical and meta-analytic review published in the Journal of Affective Disorders found inconsistent and ...

November 1, 2010 — The Patient Health Questionnaire 9 (PHQ-9) has "high" sensitivity and "good" specificity for detecting major depression in adolescents in a primary care setting, new research, ...

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Confusion over symptom questionnaires is common, and likely hampers efforts to diagnose and treat physical and mental ...

Depression screening tools are self-report surveys used to help diagnose depression by evaluating the presence and severity of depressive symptoms. These tools are not 100% reliable but can help ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The PHQ-9 was more effective than suicidal ideation screening in identifying patients who would attempt suicide ...

Have you experienced any depressive symptoms over the past two weeks? Do you think you could be suffering from clinical depression? If so, you might want to consider filling out a brief Patient Health ...

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Depression doesn’t have a uniform presentation, but teenage depression assessments can help differentiate between typical adolescent “growing pains” and serious mental health challenges. It’s ...

A new paper suggests that a widely used questionnaire for triaging mental health symptoms could be giving providers poor data to inform treatment – and that a fix could be as simple as rewriting some ...