Screening for major and minor depression in a multiethnic sample of Asian primary care patients: A comparison of the nine-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) and the 16-item Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology - Self-Report (QIDS-SR16)

Asia-Pacific Psychiatry

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 249-258

  Sung, Sharon Cohan ^a,b   Low, Charity Cheng Hong ^c,d   Fung, Daniel Shuen Sheng ^a,b,d   Chan, Yiong Huak ^d  

^a DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Singapore)

^c Peace Family Clinic (WL 832) Pte Ltd   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Depression; Depressive disorder; Primary health care; Questionnaire; Self report

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DSM-IV; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MINI INTERNATIONAL NEUROPSYCHIATRIC INTERVIEW; PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; QUICK INVENTORY OF DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMATOLOGY SELF REPORT; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING TEST; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGAPORE; SYMPTOM;

DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF-REPORT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RISK FACTORS; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SINGAPORE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84886946403     PISSN: 17585864     EISSN: 17585872     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/appy.12101     Document Type: Article

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