Screening Questionnaire for Depression

Sheba Medical Center

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Depression

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00480233

SHEBA-06-4420-RG-CTRL

Details and patient eligibility

About

Depression is common in primary care and general medical settings, but is often unrecognized and untreated by physicians working in those settings.

The Patient Health Questionnaire for depression (PHQ-9) is well validated and widely used screening instrument.

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• >18 yrs
• Primary care and general medical patients
• Understand the IC
• Speaks Hebrew
• No significant cognitive impairment