A Comparison of Depressive Symptom Self-Reported Measures in the Texas Youth Depression and Suicide Research Network (TX-YDSRN)

Conclusions: The PHQ-A, QIDS-SR16, and VQIDS-SR5 are unidimensional, psychometrically acceptable self-reports of depressive prevalence or severity in adolescents and young adults in this sample. Total scale scores on any measure can be converted reliably to those on any other.PMID:38127311 | DOI:10.4088/JCP.23m14861

Source: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry - December 21, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Karabi Nandy A John Rush Thomas Carmody Beth D Kennard Graham J Emslie Holli Slater Taryn L Mayes Melissa DeFilippis Cynthia Garza Eric A Storch Sarah M Wakefield Madhukar H Trivedi Source Type: research