The isiXhosa PHQ-9 showed satisfactory criterion validity (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, AUC = 0.706), but these analyses were under-powered. Principal component analysis revealed a one-factor solution, with 45.8% of variance explained by the first prin...
In the current research, the structure validity of the PHQ-9 was ana- lyzed by principal component analysis, and the results extracted three main factors contributing to a cumula- tive explained variance of 63.114%. The analysis of the three main factors was mainly related to low mood, lack...
Recently, item responses and total scores on depression screening scales have been reported to have characteristic distributions in the general population. The distributional pattern of responses to the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) in the general population has not been well studied. Thus, ...
The present findings support the applicability of the Greek version of PHQ-15 in assessing common somatic symptoms either medically explained or unexplained in patients seeking care in the AED, further confirming that it can be considered suitable for use in a broad range of populations in clinical...
In this study, age and community were not associated with the PHQ-9. Focusing on the community where we collected the data, there was no statistically significant difference between the scores of the host community and the IDPs and refugee communities. This can be explained by the fact that ...