Self-Rating Scale for Depression

Application

In order to recognize depression, self-rating scales can be useful between groups of patients with the risk increased for the depression. These scales are valuable to discover patients, evaluating the result of treatment and the course of the depression. The scales that they autoappraise are also independent from which doctor the patient they are, hence the result is a more patient ligature compared to a clinical evaluation. If the scale of autoposition indicates that the patient suffers from the depression the diagnostic debit to be confirmed then by a doctor.

The scale of autoposition PHQ-9 (Questionnaire of Patient Health) is extracted of the criteria as DSM-IV for the depression. The previous studies have showed that PHQ-9 are valuable as instruments that find case with a position of severity that allows the purveyor of care to supervise the result of treatment. These scales of autoposition are recommended for the use in the Primary Care. The Questionnaire of Patient Health (PHQ) is designed to facilitate the recognition and the diagnosis of depressive disorders in primary patients of care. For patients with a depressive disorder, a result of Index of Severity of Depression PHQ can be calculated and repeated by the time to supervise the change.

The Primary Care is more often the first contact of the patients with the medical assistance. The elegant primary debit to act as the first platform of prevention, diagnosis, care, treatment, and rehabilitation for all the illnesses in all the categories of age. This one also includes the depression, and the patients with soft to moderate depression more often can be completely handled in the Primary Care. The PHQ-9 is like that an instrument of double use that, with same...

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