- Cool study in JAMA Psychiatry confirms what many have suspected for a while: PHQ (depression questionnaire) instructions are widely misinterpreted by patients. It is unfortunate that a questionnaire as shitty as PHQ-9 has become so ingrained & ubiquitous jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
- I should note though: if we created a version of PHQ-9 that didn’t have these interpretation issues, it will in all likelihood still correlate very highly with the current PHQ-9. Imperfect measures can still index symptom burden and track change with meaningful utility… (/1)Dec 24, 2025 01:21
- … but that is no excuse to tolerate imperfection, esp at this large scale of implementation, when we can easily do better. (/2)
