Item Response Patterns on the Patient Health Questionnaire-8 in a Nationally Representative Sample of US Adults

Item Response Patterns on the Patient Health Questionnaire-8 in a Nationally Representative Sample of US Adults

Recent studies have shown that item responses on the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) and Kessler Screening Scale for Psychological Distress (K6) exhibit the same characteristic item response patterns among the general population. However, the distributional patterns of resp...

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Main Authors: Shinichiro Tomitaka, Yohei Kawasaki, Kazuki Ide, Maiko Akutagawa, Hiroshi Yamada, Ono Yutaka, Toshiaki A. Furukawa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychiatry
Subjects:
exploratory data analysis
depressive symptoms
Patient Health Questionnaire-8
item response
behavioral risk factor surveillance survey
exponential distribution
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyt.2017.00251/full

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