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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2023, over 3,000 notifications involved infants under the age of 1, while 8,370 cases were reported for children aged 5 to 9. Adolescents aged 15 to 19 were the most affected, with 35,851 ...

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 ...

Emeritus Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Imperial College London, London, UK. An important change in ICD-11 is the lifespan approach, whereby previous child and adolescent disorders have ...

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 ...

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) ...