Utilizing a Personal Smartphone Custom App to Assess the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) Depressive Symptoms in Patients With Major Depressive Disorder

Torous, John; Staples, Patrick; Shanahan, Meghan; Lin, Charlie; Peck, Pamela; S. Keshavan, Matcheri; Onnela, Jukka‐Pekka

doi:10.2196/mental.3889

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Utilizing a Personal Smartphone Custom App to Assess the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) Depressive Symptoms in Patients With Major Depressive Disorder

Published in JMIR Mental Health • Mar 24, 2015

Authors:

John Torous

Patrick Staples

Meghan Shanahan

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Accurate reporting of patient symptoms is critical for diagnosis and therapeutic monitoring in psychiatry. Smartphones offer an accessible, low-cost means to collect patient symptoms in real time and aid in care. OBJECTIVE: To investigate adherence among psychiatric outpatients diagnosed...

Subject

Patient Health Questionnaire

Medicine

Suicidal ideation

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