The PHQ-9: A new depression diagnostic and severity measure

By K. Kroenke, R. Spitzer. 2002

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Mental health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: longitudinal analyses of adults in the UK COVID-19 Mental Health & Wellbeing study (2020, methodology): “22,23 Feelings of defeat (perceived failed struggle and loss of rank) were assessed using four items from Griffiths ’ short-form scale.”
Tracking Depression Dynamics in College Students Using Mobile Phone and Wearable Sensing (2018, methodology): “Mental health specialists rely on depression screening tools (e.g., Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) [40, 41, 67], Major Depression Inventory (MDI) [7], Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) [8], Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS) [30]) and clinical interviews to assess the severity of the…”
Is burnout a depressive disorder? A reexamination with special focus on atypical depression. (2014, methodology): “Cutpoints of 5, 10, 15, and 20 represent the thresholds for mild, moderate, moderately severe, and severe depression, respectively (Kroenke & Spitzer, 2002).”
The mental health benefits of community helping during crisis: Coordinated helping, community identification and sense of unity during the COVID‐19 pandemic (2021, methodology): “Depression was measured with the nine-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) scale (Kroenke & Spitzer, 2002).”
The Patient Health Questionnaire Somatic, Anxiety, and Depressive Symptom Scales: a systematic review. (2010, methodology): “The PHQ-8 has been shown to have comparable operating characteristics to the PHQ-9 in terms of diagnosing depressive disorders when using a DSM-IV based diagnostic algorithm [20,85].”
Trajectories of depression: unobtrusive monitoring of depressive states by means of smartphone mobility traces analysis (2015, methodology): “997 in two different studies between PHQ-9 scores and PHQ-8 scores, and [16] suggests to use the PHQ-8 instead of the PHQ-9 in clinical samples in which the risk of suicidality is felt to be extremely low or if data is being gathered in a self-administered fashion.”