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Validation of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 for depression screening among Chinese Americans.

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The Chinese Bilingual version of the Patient Health Questionnaire (CB-PHQ-9) is a valid and useful instrument for screening for MDD among Chinese Americans in primary care.
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This article is published in Comprehensive Psychiatry.The article was published on 2008-03-01 and is currently open access. It has received 190 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Chinese americans & Patient Health Questionnaire.

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Optimal cut-off score for diagnosing depression with the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9): a meta-analysis

TL;DR: The PHQ-9 was found to have acceptable diagnostic properties for detecting major depressive disorder for cut-off scores between 8 and 11, and authors of future validation studies should consistently report the outcomes for different cut-offs.
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The prevalence of depression, anxiety, and sleep disturbances in COVID-19 patients: a meta-analysis

TL;DR: A systematic review and random‐effects meta‐analysis to assess the prevalence of depression, anxiety, and sleep disturbances in COVID‐19 patients found no significant differences in the prevalence estimates between different genders; however, the depression and anxiety prevalence estimates varied based on different screening tools.
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The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 for measuring depressive symptoms among the general population in Hong Kong.

TL;DR: The data support the reliability and validity of the PHQ-9 in assessing depressive symptoms among the general population in Hong Kong and its sensitivity and specificity should be determined in future studies.
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Case finding and screening clinical utility of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9 and PHQ-2) for depression in primary care: a diagnostic meta-analysis of 40 studies.

TL;DR: The PHQ can be used as an initial first step assessment in primary care and the PHQ-2 is adequate for this purpose with good acceptability, although the cut-off threshold must be carefully chosen.
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Study of the discriminative validity of the PHQ-9 and PHQ-2 in a sample of Brazilian women in the context of primary health care.

TL;DR: For the Brazilian version of the Patient Health Questionnaire, a cutoff score equal to or higher than 10 proved to be the most adequate for the screening of depression, whereas the best cutoff score for the PHQ-2 was found to lie between 3 and 4.
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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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The meaning and use of the area under a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve.

James A. Hanley, +1 more
- 01 Apr 1982 - 
TL;DR: A representation and interpretation of the area under a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve obtained by the "rating" method, or by mathematical predictions based on patient characteristics, is presented and it is shown that in such a setting the area represents the probability that a randomly chosen diseased subject is (correctly) rated or ranked with greater suspicion than a random chosen non-diseased subject.
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Validity of the Brief Patient Health Questionnaire Mood Scale (PHQ-9) in the general population.

TL;DR: The results support the construct validity of the PHQ depression scale, which seems to be a useful tool to recognize not only major depression but also subthreshold depressive disorder in the general population.
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Depression screening: a practical strategy.

TL;DR: The PRIME-MD Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) is the best available depression screening tool for primary care because of its brevity, relatively high positive predictive value, and ability to inform the clinician on both depression severity and diagnostic criteria.
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The Chinese-bilingual SCID-I/P Project: Stage 1 — Reliability for Mood Disorders and Schizophrenia

TL;DR: The Chinese-bilingual SCID-I/P is a reliable instrument in generating DSM-IV schizophrenia and mood disorders diagnoses for inpatients and a good degree of agreement was achieved between the SCID raters as well as between the rater and clinician diagnoses.
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