The PHQ-8 as a measure of current depression in the general population.

By K. Kroenke, Tara W. Strine, R. Spitzer, Janet B W Williams, Joyce T. Berry, Ali H. Mokdad. Journal of Affective Disorders, 2009

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Subfields: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Pharmacology, Social Psychology

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Harnessing Context Sensing to Develop a Mobile Intervention for Depression (2011, methodology): “Inclusion criteria were a diagnosis of major depressive disorder using the telephone-administered Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview [25,26], a score of 11 or more (Table 3 in [ 27]) on the 16-item Quick Inventory of Depression Symptoms–Clinician Rated (QIDS-C) [28], and a score of 10 or ”
Effectiveness of a chatbot for eating disorders prevention: A randomized clinical trial. (2021, methodology): “The Patient Health Questionnaire-8 (PHQ-8) is an eight-item self-report questionnaire that that is widely used to assess current depression, and scores range from 0 to 24 (Kroenke et al., 2009).”
The Patient Health Questionnaire Somatic, Anxiety, and Depressive Symptom Scales: a systematic review. (2010, methodology): “This has facilitated use of the PHQ in certain survey settings [91] as well as for telephone-based automated depression monitoring by interactive voice recording [49] Data on MDD prevalence rates and construct validity suggest that the number of days response set may be an acceptable option [91].”
The effect of age, gender, income, work, and physical activity on mental health during coronavirus disease (COVID-19) lockdown in Austria (2020, methodology): “Additionally, the PHQ-8 score was calculated [31] in order to be able to compare the PHQ-8 of the present study with the PHQ-8 of the Austrian Health Interview Survey 2014 (ATHIS) [32].”
The Association Between Reflective Functioning and Parent–Child Relationship Quality (2016, background): “The Patient Health Questionnaire-8 (PHQ-8; Kroenke et al. 2009) measured participants’ depressive symptoms.”
Detecting Depression with Audio/Text Sequence Modeling of Interviews (2018, methodology): “The questionnaire packages the DSM-IV depression criteria into a brief self-report instrument which asks whether the individual ﬁnds pleasure in doing things, feels down, tired, has a poor appetite, trouble concentrating, is slow or ﬁdgety, and/or struggles to sleep [4].”
DepAudioNet: An Efficient Deep Model for Audio based Depression Classification (2016, background): “The Depression Sub-Challenge (DSC) at AVEC 2016 attempts to detect if depression exists in the human-computer interaction as indicated by the PHQ-8 score [23], which is a self-reported heath scale.”
Impacts of the CARE for Teachers Program on Teachers’ Social and Emotional Competence and Classroom Interactions (2017, methodology): “The first measure used was the Patient Health Questionnaire 8-item Depression Scale (PHQ-8; Kroenke et al., 2009).”
Is Parental Burnout Distinct From Job Burnout and Depressive Symptoms? (2020, methodology): “, 2013) and that including this item does not change the specificity or sensitivity of the instrument (Kroenke et al., 2009).”
Tracking Depression Dynamics in College Students Using Mobile Phone and Wearable Sensing (2018, methodology): “The PHQ-8 defines a non depressed group (< 10) and a depressed group (≥ 10) [43].”