The Patient Health Questionnaire-2: Validity of a Two-Item Depression Screener
By K. Kroenke, R. Spitzer, Janet B W Williams. Medical Care, 2003
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Subfields: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Pharmacology, Social Psychology
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- Validation and Standardization of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Screener (GAD-7) in the General Population (2008, methodology): “As an indicator of depression, the survey included the validated German version of the 2-item depression module from the Patient Health Questionnaire.23,24 In addition, validated German versions of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale,25,26 of the Questionnaire on Life Satisfaction,27 and of the Resilien”
- The Patient Health Questionnaire Somatic, Anxiety, and Depressive Symptom Scales: a systematic review. (2010, positive): “These two items are comparable to many longer case-finding measures for depression screening whether asked with a yes–no response set as in the original PRIME-MD [83] or with the four-response set of the PHQ-9 [44,84–87].”
- A primary care back pain screening tool: identifying patient subgroups for initial treatment. (2008, methodology): “The definitions for reference standard cases were very or extremely bothersome back pain (1), catastrophizing (PCS score 20) (35), fear (TSK score 41) (36), and depression (PHQ-2 score 2) (34).”
- An ultra-brief screening scale for anxiety and depression: the PHQ-4. (2009, background): “13,14 The PHQ–2 consists of the two core criteria for depressive disorders.”
- Measures of depression and depressive symptoms: Beck Depression Inventory‐II (BDI‐II), Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES‐D), Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), and Patient Health Questionnaire‐9 (PHQ‐9) (2011, background): “These items can also be seen in the PHQ-2 validation study (54).”
- Detecting and monitoring depression with a two-item questionnaire (PHQ-2). (2005, methodology): “A measure that might overcome these shortcomings is the two-item PHQ (PHQ-2; see Appendix A), which has a four-point response format for each of its two items, with total scores ranging from 0 to 6 [16].”
- Psychological distress, coping behaviors, and preferences for support among New York healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020, background): “Other psychological screens included: the Patient Health Questionnaire-2 [10] (PHQ-2, range 0–6; score ≥ 3 indicates a positive screen for depression), and the 2-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder [11] scale (GAD-2, range 0–6; score ≥ 3 indicates a positive screen for anxiety).”
- Persistent pain after joint replacement: Prevalence, sensory qualities, and postoperative determinants (2011, methodology): “The presence of major depression was assessed using the Two-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-2) [25], which assesses the frequency of depressed mood and anhedonia over the past 2 weeks.”
- Undergraduate and Graduate Students’ Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020, methodology): “Overall Prevalence of Major Depressive Disorder and Generalized Anxiety Disorder We used the Patient Health Questionnaire-2 (PHQ-2) two-item scale to screen for major depressive disorder symptoms (Kroenke et al., 2003) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder-2 (GAD-2) two-item scale to screen students ”
- Mental health problems, use of mental health services, and attrition from military service after returning from deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan. (2006, neutral): “A positive response to either question was considered to be a risk factor for depression.(15) The PDHA includes a 4-item screen for PTSD, developed by National Center for PTSD for primary care settings (Primary care-PTSD screen or “PCPTSD”).”