Using the patient health questionnaire-9 to measure depression among racially and ethnically diverse primary care patients

By Frederick Y. Huang, Henry Chung, K. Kroenke, Kevin Delucchi, R. Spitzer. Journal of general internal medicine, 2006

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Pharmacology, Social Psychology

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Mental Health and Academic Success in College (2009, methodology): “Following previous studies (Huang et al., 2006; Weiss et al., 2006) as well as common clinical use of this screen,7 we convert the responses to these nine items to a continuous score on a 0-27 scale, with higher scores indicating higher severity of depressive symptoms.”
The Patient Health Questionnaire Somatic, Anxiety, and Depressive Symptom Scales: a systematic review. (2010, background): “ninth item has only a minor effect on scoring because it is, by far, the least frequently endorsed item on the PHQ-9 [20,28,89,90].”
Help-Seeking and Access to Mental Health Care in a University Student Population (2007, methodology): “The PHQ-9 has not been validated specifically in college populations, but has been validated in a wide variety of other populations.(31,32,34,35,38) Symptoms of generalized anxiety and panic disorder over the past 4 weeks were measured using the PHQ anxiety module.”
Standardization of the depression screener patient health questionnaire (PHQ-9) in the general population. (2013, methodology): “In other clinical samples, across different cultures, the PHQ-9 items formed rather a undimensional scale [17– 19].”
The PHQ-8 as a measure of current depression in the general population. (2009, methodology): “Research indicates that the deletion of this question has only a minor effect on scoring because thoughts of self-harm are fairly uncommon in the general population, and the ninth item is by far the least frequently endorsed item on the PHQ-9 ( Huang et al., 2006a; Kroenke and Spitzer, 2002; Lee et”