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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Chagas, Marcos Hortes N
• Tumas, Vitor
• Rodrigues, Guilherme R
• Machado-de-Sousa, João Paulo
• Filho, Alaor Santos
• Hallak, Jaime E C
• Crippa, José Alexandre S

Titel

Validation and internal consistency of Patient Health Questionnaire-9 for major depression in Parkinson's disease

Ist Teil von

• Age and ageing, 2013-09, Vol.42 (5), p.645-649

Ort / Verlag

England: Oxford Publishing Limited (England)

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

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Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• depression is common in Parkinson's disease (PD), although frequently under-recognised. Among the scales used to investigate depressive features in PD, the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) has been largely used, but no specific cut-off scores for depression have been established thus far, which hinders the use of the PHQ-9 in clinical and research settings. we assessed the discriminant validity of the PHQ-9 in order to establish the best cut-off score for the diagnosis of major depression in PD patients. one hundred and ten patients with a diagnosis of PD without dementia were evaluated with the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID), considered as the gold standard for the diagnosis of major depression. Eighty-four PD patients completed the PHQ-9, the 15-item Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-15) and the Zung Self-rating Depression Scale (SDS). the prevalence of current depression in the sample of PD patients was 25.5%. Maximal discrimination between depressed and non-depressed patients was reached with a cut-off score of 9 in the PHQ-9 (sensitivity of 100% and specificity of 83.1%). The internal consistency of the scale was 0.83 and, when used as a diagnostic instrument, the PHQ-9 had a sensitivity of 52.6% and specificity of 95.4%. The correlation coefficient between the PHQ-9 and the other two scales was 0.63. the PHQ-9 is an adequate instrument for the screening-but not diagnosis-of depression in PD patients, with optimal sensitivity and specificity attained with a cut-off score of 9.