Sequential screening for depression in humanitarian emergencies: a validation study of the Patient Health Questionnaire among Syrian refugees.

Danielle N PooleShirley LiaoElysia LarsonBethany Hedt-GauthierNathaniel A RaymondTill BärnighausenMary C Smith Fawzi

Published in: Annals of general psychiatry (2020)

The benefits of the sequential screening approach for the classification of MDD presented here are twofold: preserving classification accuracy relative to the PHQ-2 alone while reducing the response burden of the PHQ-8. This sequential screening approach is a pragmatic strategy for streamlining MDD surveillance in humanitarian emergencies.

Keyphrases

public health
major depressive disorder
machine learning
deep learning
healthcare
depressive symptoms
case report
randomized controlled trial
study protocol
health information
climate change
social media
human health