Accuracy of Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) for screening to detect major depression : individual participant data meta-analysis

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OBJECTIVE: To determine the accuracy of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) for screening to detect major depression.

DESIGN: Individual participant data meta-analysis.

DATA SOURCES: Medline, Medline In-Process and Other Non-Indexed Citations, PsycINFO, and Web of Science (January 2000-February 2015).

INCLUSION CRITERIA: Eligible studies compared PHQ-9 scores with major depression diagnoses from validated diagnostic interviews. Primary study data and study level data extracted from primary reports were synthesized. For PHQ-9 cut-off scores 5-15, bivariate random effects meta-analysis was used to estimate pooled sensitivity and specificity, separately, among studies that used semistructured diagnostic interviews, which are designed for administration by clinicians; fully structured interviews, which are designed for lay administration; and the Mini International Neuropsychiatric (MINI) diagnostic interviews, a brief fully structured interview. Sensitivity and specificity were examined among participant subgroups and, separately, using meta-regression, considering all subgroup variables in a single model.

RESULTS: Data were obtained for 58 of 72 eligible studies (total n=17 357; major depression cases n=2312). Combined sensitivity and specificity was maximized at a cut-off score of 10 or above among studies using a semistructured interview (29 studies, 6725 participants; sensitivity 0.88, 95% confidence interval 0.83 to 0.92; specificity 0.85, 0.82 to 0.88). Across cut-off scores 5-15, sensitivity with semistructured interviews was 5-22% higher than for fully structured interviews (MINI excluded; 14 studies, 7680 participants) and 2-15% higher than for the MINI (15 studies, 2952 participants). Specificity was similar across diagnostic interviews. The PHQ-9 seems to be similarly sensitive but may be less specific for younger patients than for older patients; a cut-off score of 10 or above can be used regardless of age.

CONCLUSIONS: PHQ-9 sensitivity compared with semistructured diagnostic interviews was greater than in previous conventional meta-analyses that combined reference standards. A cut-off score of 10 or above maximized combined sensitivity and specificity overall and for subgroups.

REGISTRATION: PROSPERO CRD42014010673.

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ErratumIn: BMJ. 2019 Apr 12;365:l1781. - PMID 30979729

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:365

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BMJ (Clinical research ed.) - 365(2019) vom: 09. Apr., Seite l1476

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Levis, Brooke [VerfasserIn]
Benedetti, Andrea [VerfasserIn]
Thombs, Brett D [VerfasserIn]
DEPRESsion Screening Data (DEPRESSD) Collaboration [VerfasserIn]
Riehm, Kira E [Sonstige Person]
Saadat, Nazanin [Sonstige Person]
Levis, Alexander W [Sonstige Person]
Azar, Marleine [Sonstige Person]
Rice, Danielle B [Sonstige Person]
Chiovitti, Matthew J [Sonstige Person]
Sanchez, Tatiana A [Sonstige Person]
Boruff, Jill [Sonstige Person]
Cuijpers, Pim [Sonstige Person]
Gilbody, Simon [Sonstige Person]
Ioannidis, John P A [Sonstige Person]
Kloda, Lorie A [Sonstige Person]
McMillan, Dean [Sonstige Person]
Patten, Scott B [Sonstige Person]
Shrier, Ian [Sonstige Person]
Ziegelstein, Roy C [Sonstige Person]
Akena, Dickens H [Sonstige Person]
Arroll, Bruce [Sonstige Person]
Ayalon, Liat [Sonstige Person]
Baradaran, Hamid R [Sonstige Person]
Baron, Murray [Sonstige Person]
Bombardier, Charles H [Sonstige Person]
Butterworth, Peter [Sonstige Person]
Carter, Gregory [Sonstige Person]
Chagas, Marcos H [Sonstige Person]
Chan, Juliana C N [Sonstige Person]
Clover, Kerrie [Sonstige Person]
Conwell, Yeates [Sonstige Person]
de Man-van Ginkel, Janneke M [Sonstige Person]
Delgadillo, Jaime [Sonstige Person]
Fann, Jesse R [Sonstige Person]
Fischer, Felix H [Sonstige Person]
Fung, Daniel [Sonstige Person]
Gelaye, Bizu [Sonstige Person]
Goodyear-Smith, Felicity [Sonstige Person]
Greeno, Catherine G [Sonstige Person]
Hall, Brian J [Sonstige Person]
Hambridge, John [Sonstige Person]
Harrison, Patricia A [Sonstige Person]
Härter, Martin [Sonstige Person]
Hegerl, Ulrich [Sonstige Person]
Hides, Leanne [Sonstige Person]
Hobfoll, Stevan E [Sonstige Person]
Hudson, Marie [Sonstige Person]
Inagaki, Masatoshi [Sonstige Person]
Ismail, Khalida [Sonstige Person]
Jetté, Nathalie [Sonstige Person]
Khamseh, Mohammad E [Sonstige Person]
Kiely, Kim M [Sonstige Person]
Kwan, Yunxin [Sonstige Person]
Liu, Shen-Ing [Sonstige Person]
Lotrakul, Manote [Sonstige Person]
Loureiro, Sonia R [Sonstige Person]
Löwe, Bernd [Sonstige Person]
Marsh, Laura [Sonstige Person]
McGuire, Anthony [Sonstige Person]
Mohd Sidik, Sherina [Sonstige Person]
Munhoz, Tiago N [Sonstige Person]
Muramatsu, Kumiko [Sonstige Person]
Osório, Flávia L [Sonstige Person]
Patel, Vikram [Sonstige Person]
Pence, Brian W [Sonstige Person]
Persoons, Philippe [Sonstige Person]
Picardi, Angelo [Sonstige Person]
Reuter, Katrin [Sonstige Person]
Rooney, Alasdair G [Sonstige Person]
Santos, Iná S [Sonstige Person]
Shaaban, Juwita [Sonstige Person]
Sidebottom, Abbey [Sonstige Person]
Simning, Adam [Sonstige Person]
Stafford, Lesley [Sonstige Person]
Sung, Sharon C [Sonstige Person]
Tan, Pei Lin Lynnette [Sonstige Person]
Turner, Alyna [Sonstige Person]
van der Feltz-Cornelis, Christina M [Sonstige Person]
van Weert, Henk C [Sonstige Person]
Vöhringer, Paul A [Sonstige Person]
White, Jennifer [Sonstige Person]
Whooley, Mary A [Sonstige Person]
Winkley, Kirsty [Sonstige Person]
Yamada, Mitsuhiko [Sonstige Person]
Zhang, Yuying [Sonstige Person]

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Meta-Analysis
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Date Completed 18.04.2019

Date Revised 06.10.2023

published: Electronic

ErratumIn: BMJ. 2019 Apr 12;365:l1781. - PMID 30979729

Citation Status MEDLINE

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10.1136/bmj.l1476

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NLM295889071