Close to 20% of people will have at least one episode of depression in their lifetime, but less than half of them will receive treatment for it. One reason for this: many people wonder if they are ...

Portrait Of Female Doctor Comforting Depressed Patient Researchers sought to improve depression screening from 0% to 30% in an 8-week period by implementing the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 and ...

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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, ...

September 30, 2010 — The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ)-9 may help identify depression in primary care elderly patients, according to the results of a prospective study reported in the September 1 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The PHQ-9M for teens includes four additional questions about depression and suicidal ideation. The extra ...

Instructions for responding to the Patient Health Questionnaire, used to measure severity of depression, are often misinterpreted by patients.

Professor of Primary Care Tony Kendrick, from Southampton, said current evidence that PHQ-9s improve the management of depression for patients in primary care is inconsistent. He added: "Our study ...

Close to 20% of people will have at least one episode of depression in their lifetime, but less than half of them will receive treatment for it. One reason for this: many people wonder if they are ...

Major depressive disorder, also known as clinical depression, might be one of the more common mental health diagnoses around, but there is still plenty of stigma around the diagnosis and about mental ...

We've all searched for answers to difficult or intimate questions online. Now, those searching for information about depression on Google will be offered useful, science-backed help. Google has ...