Translating measurement into practice: Brazilian norms for depressive symptom assessment with the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9)
| Autor: | Rodolfo Furlan Damiano, Maurício Scopel Hoffmann, Natan Pereira Gosmann, Pedro Mario Pan, Eurípedes Constantino Miguel, Giovanni Abrahão Salum |
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| Jazyk: | English<br />Portuguese |
| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Zdroj: | Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry (2023) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1809-452X 1516-4446 |
| DOI: | 10.47626/1516-4446-2022-2945 |
| Popis: | Objectives: To provide practical norms for measuring depressive symptoms with the Patient Health Questionnaire 9 (PHQ-9) in Brazil through a state-of-the-art psychometrics analysis. Methods: We used a large representative dataset from the 2019 Brazilian National Health Survey (Pesquisa Nacional de Saúde – 2019), which included 90,846 Brazilian citizens. To assess scale structure, we assessed a unidimensional model using confirmatory factor analysis. Item response theory was used to characterize the distribution of depressive symptoms. Summed- and mean-based PHQ-9 scores were then linked using item response theory-based scores in generalized additive models. Finally, percentiles, T scores, and a newly developed score, called the decimal score (D score), were generated to describe PHQ-9 norms for the Brazilian population. Results: Confirmatory factor analysis revealed a good fit to the unidimensional model, being invariant to age and sex. Item response theory captured item-level information about the latent trait (reliable from 1 to 3 SDs above the mean). Brazilian norms were presented using summed scores, T scores, and D scores. Conclusion: This is the first study to determine Brazilian norms for the PHQ-9 among a large representative sample using robust psychometric tools. More precise PHQ-9 scores are now available and may be widely used in primary and specialized clinical care settings. |
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