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Reliability and equivalence of the 8-item version of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-8) to screen for depressive symptoms in adults with chronic pain: A representative U.S. population study

2025-08-12

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<h4>SUMMARY</h4> <h4>Background</h4> The 8-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-8) is the most widely implemented clinical depression screener in the world and is increasingly influential in population surveillance of unmet mental health needs. However, in the context of chronic pain (CP), depression screening could be complicated by overlapping symptoms. Inaccurate attribution of CP symptoms to depression cou...

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Literature Corpus work: 3967c6f3-b017-50a9-b853-82a68444ed6c
DOI: 10.1101/2025.08.08.25333327

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