Due to legal liability concerns, some healthcare organizations are leaving off the ninth item about suicidality when screening for depression with the widely used Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9 ...

Google started collaborating with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) to facilitate education on clinical depression by putting a questionnaire into its search tool on mobile. Whether using ...

"Self-assessment tools like the PHQ-9 are still well valued by many GPs and patients for monitoring depression treatment. "We would like to see future studies test PROMs which are automatically ...

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 ...

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 ...

With one in five Americans experiencing clinical depression in their lifetime, should Google offer an online screening test for depression? Experts debate the issue in The BMJ today. US based clinical ...

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, ...

Google users can now easily screen themselves for depression. Users who search key terms such as "depression" and "clinical depression" have immediate access to the PHQ-9 test, a self-assessment tool ...