Background Depression is a leading cause of disability. International guidelines recommend
screening for depression and the Patient Health Questionnaire 9 (PHQ-9) has been …

Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are self-rated scales and indices developed
to improve the detection of the patients' subjective experience. Given that a considerable …

Background We aimed to estimate the prevalence of current depressive disorder in 27
European countries, and to explore differences in prevalence between European countries …

The gut microbiome is thought to play a role in depressive disorders, which makes it an
attractive target for interventions. Both the microbiome and depressive symptom levels vary …

Importance Depression is common and associated with substantial burden. Suicide rates
have increased over the past decade, and both suicide attempts and deaths have …

Background: The Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HAMD-17) has been used for
several decades to assess the severity of depression. Multiple studies have documented …

Introduction: There is neither strong evidence on effective treatments for patients with
chronic back pain (CBP) and depressive disorder nor sufficiently available mental health …

Objectives The present study introduces the assessment of depression and depressive
symptoms in the German National Cohort (NAKO), a population-based mega cohort …

Introduction Long COVID (LC), the persistent symptoms≥ 12 weeks following acute COVID-
19, presents major threats to individual and public health across countries, affecting over 1.5 …

Purpose Life satisfaction refers to a cognitive and global evaluation of the quality of one's life
as a whole. The arguably most often used measure of life satisfaction is the Satisfaction With …