What is it about?
This study is about health workers identifying depression among women in primary care by administering PHQ9 a nine item questionnaire
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Why is it important?
Depression among women often remains unidentified in primary care since they may not proactively express depressive symptoms If health workers administer PHQ9 most of the women who have depressive disorder can be identified correctly
Perspectives
This paper is validation of PHQ9 in Malayalam the language spoken by around 30 million people in Kerala, a state in the southern part of India. Health workers who administered PHQ9 are a part of health system of India. Hence we expect it to be replicable in other parts through staff who carry out public health activities
Prof Pillaveetil Sathyadas Indu MBBS MD DPM DNB MPhil(Clinical Epidemiology)PhD FRCP
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This page is a summary of: Reliability and validity of PHQ-9 when administered by health workers for depression screening among women in primary care, Asian Journal of Psychiatry, October 2018, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajp.2018.07.021.
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