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The Patient Health Questionnaire Somatic, Anxiety, and Depressive Symptom Scales: a systematic review.
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In this article, the psychometric and pragmatic characteristics of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ)-9 depression, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)-7 anxiety and PHQ-15 somatic symptom scales are synthesized from two sources: (1) four multisite cross-sectional studies (three conducted in primary care and one in obstetric-gynecology practices) comprising 9740 patients, and (2) key studies from the literature that have studied these scales.About:
This article is published in General Hospital Psychiatry.The article was published on 2010-07-01. It has received 2765 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Somatic anxiety & Anxiety.read more
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Relationships between Perceived Stress, Depression and Alcohol Use Disorders in University Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Socio-Economic Dimension.
TL;DR: Differences in mental and behavioural disorders between the gender and income categories were significant in most of the analysed cases, and efforts to reduce stress will be reflected in a Reduction of depressive disorders as well as a reduction of excessive alcohol consumption among students.
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Effectiveness of a Stepped, Collaborative, and Coordinated Health Care Network for Somatoform Disorders (Sofu-Net): A Controlled Cluster Cohort Study.
Bernd Löwe,Katharina Piontek,Anne Daubmann,Martin Härter,Karl Wegscheider,Hans-Helmut König,Meike C. Shedden-Mora +6 more
TL;DR: The treatment of somatoform disorders within a guideline-based health care network resulted in increased rates of mental health treatment but failed to improve patient clinical outcomes.
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Health Status of Female and Male Gulf War and Gulf Era Veterans: A Population-Based Study
TL;DR: Female Gulf War veterans were found to have a higher prevalence of disease than male Gulf Era veterans, and women veterans, particularly deployed veterans, from this era have significant medical needs that may justify increased outreach from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Antidepressants are not overprescribed for mild depression.
Gregory E. Simon,Rebecca C. Rossom,Arne Beck,Beth E. Waitzfelder,Karen J. Coleman,Christine Stewart,Belinda H. Operskalski,Robert B. Penfold,Susan M. Shortreed +8 more
TL;DR: Overprescribing of antidepressant medication for minimal or mild depression is much less common than suggested by previous reports and is not a significant public health concern.
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Web of Objects Based Ambient Assisted Living Framework for Emergency Psychiatric State Prediction
TL;DR: Patients’ psychiatric symptoms are collected through lightweight biosensors and web-based psychiatric screening scales in a smart home environment and then analyzed through machine learning algorithms to provide ambient intelligence in a psychiatric emergency.
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The PHQ-9: validity of a brief depression severity measure.
TL;DR: In addition to making criteria-based diagnoses of depressive disorders, the PHQ-9 is also a reliable and valid measure of depression severity, which makes it a useful clinical and research tool.
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A Brief Measure for Assessing Generalized Anxiety Disorder: The GAD-7
TL;DR: In this article, a 7-item anxiety scale (GAD-7) had good reliability, as well as criterion, construct, factorial, and procedural validity, and increasing scores on the scale were strongly associated with multiple domains of functional impairment.
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A Brief Measure for Assessing Generalized Anxiety Disorder: The GAD-7
TL;DR: The GAD-7 is a valid and efficient tool for screening for GAD and assessing its severity in clinical practice and research.
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Validation and utility of a self-report version of PRIME-MD : The PHQ Primary Care Study
TL;DR: The study suggests that the PHQ has diagnostic validity comparable to the original clinician-administered PRIME-MD, and is more efficient to use.