What Is The Best Measure Of Depression Severity?News Staff
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers At present the key symptom for diagnosing major depressive disorder (MDD) in adolescents is irritability. However a new study has found that the severity of anhedonia (the inability to gain pleasure from experiences that usually are enjoyable) rather than...
Measuring depression outcome with a brief self-report instrument: sensitivity to change of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9). (PHQ-9) is well validated and widely used as a brief diagnostic and severity measure, but its validity as an outcome measure for depression has not ... Bernd ...
Patients newly started on antidepressants were surveyed with the Patient Health Questionnaire 9-item screen (PHQ-9), a measure of depression symptom severity; the Work Productivity and Activity Impairment (WPAI) questionnaire, a measure of loss in productivity; and items on health status and ...
To test the workplace impact of depression when it is stratified by severity and considered in broader context.Structural equation models of health risk appraisal data (n = 39,097) involving 41 measures of contextual characteristics, depression severity, health, and job performance.Approximately 15.7...
Depression scale scores from depressed medical inpatients were assessed for internal consistency using Cronbach's for both scales is well below the minimum necessary for the total score to be used to represent a single construct. The HDS appears to be an unreliable measure of depression severity in...
This cohort study examines data for 535 DREAM study participants with dry eye disease to investigate associations between depression and severity of dry
In contemporary society, depression has emerged as a prominent mental disorder that exhibits exponential growth and exerts a substantial influence on premature mortality. Although numerous research applied machine learning methods to forecast signs of de
2 Typicallythese canbescoredascontinuousmeasuresofdepres- sionseverityandalsohaveestablishedcutpoints abovewhichtheprobabilityofmajordepression issubstantiallyincreased.Scoresonthesevari- ousmeasurestendtobehighlycorrelated 3 ,with littleevidencethatonemeasureissuperiorto anyother. 1,2,4 PHQANDPHQ-9 Theprimary...
Kroenke K, Spitzer RL, Williams JB (2001) The PHQ-9: validity of a brief depression severity measure. J Gen Intern Med 16. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1525-1497.2001.016009606.x. :606 – 13 Ballou S, Katon J, Singh P, Rangan V, Lee HN, McMahon C, Iturrino J, Lembo A, Nee ...