The geriatric depression scale is a screening tool that can help identify depression in older adults. Learn about the different versions, their uses, and how effective they are.

Implementing the Patient Health Questionnaire-2 (PHQ-2) in a hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) clinic improved the ability of dermatologists to detect patients at risk for depression, results from a ...

At that time, the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), a set of nine questions that help clinicians identify signs and symptoms of depression, will transition to the PHQ-2 to 9.

The primary outcome was absolute change in mean severity of symptoms of depression and anxiety, which was assessed using the Patient Health Questionnaire Anxiety and Depression Scale (PHQ-ADS) at ...

New meta analysis demonstrated that access to the GeneSight test can significantly improve response and remission rates for patients with depression. Compared to treatment as usual patients, those who ...

It involved the three-item Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test-Consumption, the two-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-2) for depression, a question about frequency of illegal or ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the accuracy of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) for screening to detect major depression. DESIGN Individual participant data meta-analysis. DATA SOURCES Medline, ...

Limiting screen time before bed and implementing other healthy sleep habits improves adolescent mental health, explains Dr David Thibault.

Objective: We explored whether medical health workers had more psychosocial problems than nonmedical health workers during the COVID-19 outbreak. Methods: An online survey was run from February 19 to ...