Translating measurement into practice: Brazilian norms for depressive symptom assessment with the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9)

Objectives: To provide practical norms for measuring depressive symptoms with the Patient Health Questionnaire 9 (PHQ-9) in Brazil through a state-of-the-art psychometrics analysis. Methods: We used a large representative dataset from the 2019 Brazilian National Health Survey (Pesquisa Nacional de...

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Main Authors: Rodolfo Furlan Damiano, Maurício Scopel Hoffmann, Natan Pereira Gosmann, Pedro Mario Pan, Eurípedes Constantino Miguel, Giovanni Abrahão Salum
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria (ABP) 2023-07-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-44462023005005301&lng=en&tlng=en