Year: 2010
Type: letter
Abstract: Malpass et al , in a mixed methods study assessing PHQ-9 scores and patients' experiences, report that patients found the PHQ-9 to be helpful,1 concurring with other recent qualitative work that suggested that patients viewed such measures as an ‘objective adjunct to medical judgement’.2 Unfortunately, the value of these observations rests entirely on the assumption that the PHQ-9 is a valid measure of depression severity. Considerable doubt attends this premature notion.3,4 Indeed, the most recent of these findings is reported …
Authors: Isobel M Cameron, Ian C Reid, Kenneth Lawton
Institutions: University of Aberdeen, Royal Cornhill Hospital
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2168719137