Background: The aim of this study was to compare the validity of the Hospital Anxiety and
Depression Scale (HADS), the WHO (five) Well Being Index (WBI-5), the Patient Health …

Background: Diagnosing and monitoring depression in primary care remains an issue of
significant public health concern. Clinicians and researchers need to know if any one …

BACKGROUND: Studies investigating the performance of instruments to detect major
depressive disorder (MDD) have reported inconsistent results. Subsyndromal depression …

The Depression Self-Rating Scale (DSRS) is a self-report inventory based on the DSM-IV
criteria for major depression. This study aimed to investigate diagnostic concordance of a …

Background: Instruments are frequently used in case finding, diagnosis and severity grading
of major depression, but the evidence supporting their utility is weak. Aim: To systematically …

Background: A self-rating inventory has been developed to measure DSM-IV and ICD-10
diagnoses of major (moderate to severe) depression by the patients' self-reported …

Background Depressive and anxiety disorders often go unrecognized in distressed primary
care patients, despite the overtly psychosocial nature of their demand for help. This is …

In this report from the Rhode Island Methods to Improve Diagnostic Assessment and
Services (MIDAS) project, we describe the development and validation of the Diagnostic …

The objective of this study is to evaluate internal consistency and psychometric properties of
the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), the Beck Depression inventory‐II (BDI …

Abstract Objective The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) is a widely used screening tool
for major depressive disorder (MDD), although there is debate surrounding its diagnostic …