Mental health assessment and depression management have evolved into multifaceted endeavours that integrate rigorous psychometric screening with personalised clinical intervention. Modern strategies ...

Radial reports that teen depression is prevalent yet under-treated. Effective options include therapy, antidepressants, and ...

A common GP assessment used to monitor depression treatment does not provide any immediate benefits to patients. Experts testing the PHQ-9 assessment that measures the severity of depression found it ...

A new brief report published in JAMA Psychiatry finds that the instructions for the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ), a ...

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, Vol. 42, No. 1 (February 2014), pp. 82-88 (7 pages) Aims: Major depressive disorders are common, with substantial impact on individuals/society. Brief scales for ...

Google users can now easily screen themselves for depression. Users who search key terms such as "depression" and "clinical depression" have immediate access to the PHQ-9 test, a self-assessment tool ...

In treatment of depression with adjunctive aripiprazole, early improvement (week 2) was a significant predictor of remission, and lack of improvement was associated with nonremission. Post hoc pooled ...

5 Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Providencia, Chile 6 Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH), Escuela de Ciencias de la Actividad Física, el Deporte y la Salud, ...

Source: Image from the Gurian Institute website. Tracy, 18, called his parents to say he was not doing well in college. “I can’t take it,” he said, “I have to get out.” After insisting he keep trying, ...

Apple Health's Mental Wellbeing features include emotion and mood journaling as well as mental health self-assessments. Credit: Image: Mashable composite; Shutterstock / i_fleur There's no shortage of ...