More recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a modified version of the PHQ-9 for teens (PHQ-9M), a self-report screen for depression during pediatric primary care visits.
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).
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 ...