Author(s): Levis B; Benedetti A; Ioannidis JPA; Sun Y; Negeri Z; He C; Wu Y; Krishnan A; Bhandari PM; Neupane D; Imran M; Rice DB; Riehm KE; Saadat N; Azar M; Boruff J; Cuijpers P; Gilbody S; Kloda LA; McMillan D; Patten SB; Shrier I; Ziegelstein R ...

Objectives: Depression symptom questionnaires are not for diagnostic classification. Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) scores =10 are nonetheless often used to estimate depression prevalence. We compared PHQ-9 =10 prevalence to Structured Clinical Interview for Diagnostic and Statistical Man ...

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Author(s): Wu Y; Levis B; Riehm KE; Saadat N; Levis AW; Azar M; Rice DB; Boruff J; Cuijpers P; Gilbody S; Ioannidis JPA; Kloda LA; McMillan D; Patten SB; Shrier I; Ziegelstein RC; Akena DH; Arroll B; Ayalon L; Baradaran HR; Baron M; Bombardier CH; ...

Background: Item 9 of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) queries about thoughts of death and self-harm, but not suicidality. Although it is sometimes used to assess suicide risk, most positive responses are not associated with suicidality. The PHQ-8, which omits Item 9, is thus increasing ...

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Author(s): Levis B; Benedetti A; Riehm KE; Saadat N; Levis AW; Azar M; Rice DB; Chiovitti MJ; Sanchez TA; Cuijpers P; Gilbody S; Ioannidis JPA; Kloda LA; McMillan D; Patten SB; Shrier I; Steele RJ; Ziegelstein RC; Akena DH; Arroll B; Ayalon L; Bara ...

Background: Different diagnostic interviews are used as reference standards for major depression classification in research. Semi-structured interviews involve clinical judgement, whereas fully structured interviews are completely scripted. The Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI) ...

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Author(s): Ishihara M; Harel D; Levis B; Levis AW; Riehm KE; Saadat N; Azar M; Rice DB; Sanchez TA; Chiovitti MJ; Cuijpers P; Gilbody S; Ioannidis JPA; Kloda LA; McMillan D; Patten SB; Shrier I; Arroll B; Bombardier CH; Butterworth P; Carter G; Clo ...

Background: The objective of this study was to develop and validate a short form of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), a self-report questionnaire for assessing depressive symptomatology, using objective criteria. Methods: Responses on the PHQ-9 were obtained from 7,850 English-speaking ...

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