A new brief report published in JAMA Psychiatry finds that the instructions for the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ), a ...

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Close to 20% of people will have at least one episode of depression in their lifetime, but less than half of them will receive treatment for it. One reason for this: many people wonder if they are ...

A commonly used questionnaire adopted by GPs to monitor the treatment of depression does not provide any immediate benefits to patients, a new study has found. Primary care researchers testing the PHQ ...

Have you experienced any depressive symptoms over the past two weeks? Do you think you could be suffering from clinical depression? If so, you might want to consider filling out a brief Patient Health ...

Confusion over symptom questionnaires is common, and likely hampers efforts to diagnose and treat physical and mental ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The PHQ-9M for teens includes four additional questions about depression and suicidal ideation. The extra ...

A change coming to a key depression screening tool in the Minimum Data Set could affect how skilled nursing facilities assess residents for mood disorders and how they are reimbursed for related care.

Depression doesn’t have a uniform presentation, but teenage depression assessments can help differentiate between typical adolescent “growing pains” and serious mental health challenges. It’s ...