The Patient Health Questionnaire 9-item depression module (PHQ-9) is a well-validated, brief, self-reported, diagnostic, and severity measure of depression designed for use in primary care (PC).

Three questions on modified health questionnaire were more likely to predict suicidal behavior within one year of screening PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers from Children's ...

Suicide is one of the leading causes of death among adolescents. In order to curb this disturbing trend, pediatricians have integrated screening for depression and suicidal ideation as part of routine ...

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) found that supplemental questions on a routine ...

Investigators sought to determine the outcomes of adolescents and young adults aged 12 to 21 years with depression and ... The primary outcome measures were the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ–9) ...

The researchers say low resource settings often lack clinical professionals to identify depression, therefore tools such as the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) allow for broader depression ...

For example, the Wellcome Trust now expects all researchers studying depression to use the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), as an agreed measure of depression (Wellcome 2023). If we all use the ...

Participants who had high scores on the depression or anxiety symptoms scales (PHQ-8 ≥ 20 and/or GAD-7 score ... Early intervention should be prioritised since adolescents seem to be more vulnerable ...

Depression and nutritional-inflammatory status were assessed with Patient Health Questionnaire 9 (PHQ-9) and Advanced Lung Cancer Inflammation Index (ALI), respectively. Weighted multivariate COX ...

The COVID-19 pandemic, which began in late 2019, brought immense disruption to individuals and societies worldwide, including children and adolescents. Alongside its immediate physical health impacts, ...