PHQ-9 Patient Health Questionnaire – A New Vision for Mental Health

How a depression test devised by a Zoloft marketer became a crutch for a failing mental health system

This article by Olivia Goldhill has been published by Stat. It begins: “A bedrock of the U.S. mental health system — a nine-item questionnaire used to spot depression — began not with a doctor, but with a marketing man. Howard Kroplick,…
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Quiz used to diagnose depression is designed by drugs company

Author: Editorial 2nd August 2017 0 Comments

Depression is being over-diagnosed because GPs are too reliant on a “basic” questionnaire designed by a pharmaceutical company (Pfizer) which also manufacturers psychiatric drugs, campaigners have warned, as reported in the Daily Telegraph . The easy-to-use nine-question form sets the threshold for the…
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