Depressive symptoms and health-related quality of life: the Heart and Soul Study.

By B. Ruo, J. Rumsfeld, M. Hlatky, Haiying H Liu, W. Browner, M. Whooley. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2003

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The PHQ-8 as a measure of current depression in the general population. (2009, methodology): “Additionally, the PHQ-9 is effective for detecting depressive symptoms in various racial/ethnic groups (Huang et al., 2006a,b) and older populations (Klapow et al., 2002), as well as in patients with neurological disorders (Bombardier et al., 2006; Bombardier et al., 2004; Callahan et al., 2006; Fan”
Prevalence of depression in survivors of acute myocardial infarction (2007, background): “Depression may have a greater effect on quality of life and physical limitation in patients with coronary disease than traditionally determined measures of cardiac function.(69) This effect is likely to persist for at least several months, since depression that is present during the AMI hospitalizat”
The association of depression and anxiety with medical symptom burden in patients with chronic medical illness. (2007, background): “Ruo [38] 2003 Cross-sectional”