ArticleThe primary care companion for CNS disorders2011
Patient health questionnaire depression scale as a suicide screening instrument in depressed primary care patients: a cross-sectional study.
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Randomized Trial of Psychotherapy for Persistently Depressed Primary Care Patients
Family Safety Net: Developing an Upstream Suicide Prevention Approach to Encourage Safe Firearm Storage in Rural and Remote
Who cites it
59 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Screening for Behavioral Health Conditions in Primary Care Settings: A Systematic Review of the Literature.Journal of general internal medicine · 2018Pooled it
- Toward the Design of Evidence-Based Mental Health Information Systems for People With Depression: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2017Pooled it
- Risk Model-Guided Clinical Decision Support for Suicide Screening: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2025Trial
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- The Relationship Between Mother-Child Bonding Impairment and Suicidal Ideation in São Paulo, Brazil.Maternal and child health journal · 2021Trial
- Effects of a depression-focused internet intervention in slot machine gamblers: A randomized controlled trial.PloS one · 2018Trial
- Yield of practice-based depression screening in VA primary care settings.Journal of general internal medicine · 2012Trial
- Development and validation of the SuPr-10 questionnaire for suicidality assessment in primary care patients with depressive symptoms.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Development and validation of a computerized adaptive testing for borderline personality disorder.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Relationships between PTSD severity and suicidal ideation in Cambodian women: The role of individual symptom clusters, trauma types and depression.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2026Article
- Does help-seeking mediate the relationship between the masculine norm of self-reliance and suicidal thoughts among men?Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2025Article
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- Workforce estimate to treat mental disorders in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.Human resources for health · 2024Article
- Insomnia moderates the association between psychotic-like experiences and suicidal ideation in a non-clinical population: a network analysis.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2024Article
- Association of sociodemographic, proximal, and distal clinical factors with current suicidal ideation: Findings from a nonclinical sample of young adults.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2023Article
- Measuring the suicidal mind: The 'open source' Suicidality Scale, for adolescents and adults.PloS one · 2023Review
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- Comorbidity screening in hidradenitis suppurativa: Evidence-based recommendations from the US and Canadian Hidradenitis Suppurativa Foundations.Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology · 2022Review
- Researching the researchers: psychological distress and psychosocial stressors according to career stage in mental health researchers.BMC psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe aim of this study was to examine the sensitivity and specificity of the suicide item on the 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) when compared to a structured interview (the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV; SCID-I mood module) in primary care patients with elevated depression symptoms.
methodIn this cross-sectional study, we analyzed data from 166 patients from 2 primary care clinics, 1 in Rhode Island and 1 in Massachusetts, who were enrolled in studies that focused on depression in primary care. Of the total participants, 101 were enrolled in the survey study, and 65 were screened for or enrolled in either an open trial or a pilot randomized controlled trial. Data were collected between May 2004 and May 2009.
resultsWe found that the specificity of the PHQ-9 suicide screening item was 0.84 and sensitivity was 0.69 for the sample as a whole.
conclusionsThis study suggests that the routine use of the PHQ-9 may be useful in primary care practice in that it may identify individuals at risk for suicide who would not otherwise have been identified. However, denial of suicidality on the PHQ-9 should be probed further if there are other risk factors for suicide present.
trial registrationclinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT00541957.
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