1. Investigating the PHQ-9 With Mokken Scale Analysis and Cognitive Interviews.
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Kristófersdóttir KH, Kristjánsdóttir H, Asgeirsdottir RL, Karlsson T, Vésteinsdóttir V, and Thorsdottir F
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- Humans, Male, Female, Middle Aged, Adult, Aged, Reproducibility of Results, Iceland, Interview, Psychological, Patient Health Questionnaire, Depression diagnosis, Depression psychology, Young Adult, Adolescent, Primary Health Care, Surveys and Questionnaires, Psychometrics
- Abstract
Scores on the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) are frequently used to assess depression both in research and in clinical practice. The aim was to examine the validity of the PHQ-9 sum score by using Mokken scale analysis (Study I) and cognitive interviews (Study II) on the Icelandic version of PHQ-9. A primary care sample of 618 individuals was used in Study I. The results indicate that the PHQ-9 items are not close enough to perfectly unidimensional for their sum score to accurately order people on the depression severity dimension. In Study II, the sample consisted of 53 individuals, with 28 having a history of depression and 25 not. The findings reveal a number of issues concerning respondents' use of the PHQ-9. No systematic differences were found in the results of the two groups. The PHQ-9 sum score should thus be interpreted and used with great care. We provide scale revision recommendations to improve the quality of PHQ-9., Competing Interests: Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. more...
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- 2024
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