November 1, 2010 — The Patient Health Questionnaire 9 (PHQ-9) has "high" sensitivity and "good" specificity for detecting major depression in adolescents in a primary care setting, new research, ...

Doctors know teen depression is common but have lacked a reliable screening test. Now report the PHQ-9 (Patient Health Questionnaire - 9 item) screens well for major depression in adolescents. Primary ...

Objectives To determine the prevalence of depressive and anxiety symptoms among young people 7 years and 9 years after ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A review of assessing and treating depression in adolescents described the best approaches to diagnosis and ...

Portrait Of Female Doctor Comforting Depressed Patient Researchers sought to improve depression screening from 0% to 30% in an 8-week period by implementing the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 and ...

People with depression see no immediate change from common GP assessment, study shows But PHQ-9 questionnaire used to monitor primary care patients did reveal benefits across six months Date: March 28 ...

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 ...

Major depressive disorder, also known as clinical depression, might be one of the more common mental health diagnoses around, but there is still plenty of stigma around the diagnosis and about mental ...

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 ...