Assessment of depression severity with the PHQ-9 in cancer patients and in the general population

Assessment of depression severity with the PHQ-9 in cancer patients and in the general population

Background: The Patient Health Questionnaire PHQ-9 is a widely used instrument to screen for depression in clinical research. The first aim of this study was to psychometrically test the PHQ-9 in a large sample of cancer patients. The second aim was to calculate unbiased estimates of the depression...

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Main Authors: Hinz, Andreas, Mehnert, Anja, Kocalevent, Rüya-Daniela, Brähler, Elmar, Forkmann, Thomas, Singer, Susanne, Schulte, Thomas
Other Authors: Universität Leipzig, Medizinische Fakultät
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig 2016
Subjects:
Depression
Krebs
depressive Beschwerden
Psychometrie
cancer
depressive symptoms
psychometrics
ddc:610
Online Access:http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-205520
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http://www.qucosa.de/fileadmin/data/qucosa/documents/20552/OAP-2016-087_art%253A10.1186%252Fs12888-016-0728-6.pdf

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