Background: Telephone assessment of depression for research purposes is increasingly being used. The Patient Health Questionnaire 9-item depression module (PHQ-9) is a well-validated, brief ...

The PHQ-9, which is the depression module, assesses each of the 9 DSM-IV criteria on a scale of “0” (not at all) to “3” (nearly every day). Over 6,000 patients in eight primary care ...

A Jordanian study finds that over one-third of women with lupus suffer from depression, and nearly one-third have ...

Internet-based, therapist-guided and traditional face-to-face cognitive behavioral therapy are equally effective in treating depression.

Olga Lainidi compares the cost, use and accessibility of behavioural activation with usual medical treatments, for older ...

Risk for moderate to severe depressive symptoms during pregnancy varied widely across 20 different racial and ethnic groups, ...