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PURPOSE: TO UNDERTAKE RESEARCH ON THE VALIDITY OF DEPRESSION SEVERITY MEASUREMENT TOOLS FOR USE WITH PRIMARY CARE PATIENTS DIAGNOSED WITH DEPRESSION

Depression Severity Measures

NHS QIS has funded the University of Aberdeen to carry out a new research project. The aim of the project is to assess the validity of the PHQ-9, HADS and BDI-II in measuring severity of depression in a sample of primary care patients with a diagnosis of depression and to establish empirically derived severity cut-off scores for these measures.

Currently, there has been no UK psychometric comparison of the endorsed measures, therefore th... more.