Background: Telephone assessment of depression for research purposes is increasingly being used. The Patient Health Questionnaire 9-item depression module (PHQ-9) is a well-validated, brief ...

Indeed, when the nine depression items of the PHQ-9 were ranked by these physician groups, the three most and least important items were identical. To the best of our knowledge this is the first ...

Cardiorenal syndrome was associated with an increased risk for depressive symptoms, but lipid indices did not mediate this relationship.

In past trials, ketamine intravenous treatment has shown promise, with 64% of depression patients in trials experiencing ...

The DAS/VR group experienced significant improvements, with a 70% reduction in Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale ...

The 4 additional questions about depression and suicidal ideation in the PHQ-9M were strongly associated with subsequent suicide attempts. Among adolescents, supplemental items 10-13 on the Patient ...

And then they might have you answer a PHQ-9, which is a little bit more detailed, and then can also gauge the severity of the clinical process. So the two-- recurrent depression is the episodic ...

To gauge depression symptoms, the researchers used the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), a validated survey tool that ...