Brooke Levis

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Correspondence on population health surveys and screening tools for depressive disorders: aims and uses by Arias de la Torre et al

Aug 8, 2023 | mentalhealth.bmj.com | Felix R. Fischer |Dario Zocholl |Geraldine Rauch |Brooke Levis

depression & mood disorders Arias de la Torre et al argue in ‘Population health surveys and screening tools for depressive disorders: aims and uses’ that population-based studies like the European Health Interview Survey (EHIS) are primarily intended to identify and compare vulnerable groups and factors associated with depression on a population level, not to estimate prevalence of major depressive disorders (MDD).1 We fully agree that the use of brief depression questionnaires in such...
Transparent reporting of multivariable prediction models for individual prognosis or diagnosis: checklist for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (TRIPOD-SRMA)

May 3, 2023 | bmj.com | Brooke Levis |Paula Dhiman |Lotty Hooft |Johannes B. Reitsma

ResearchTransparent reporting...
Prevalence estimates of major depressive disorder in 27 European countries from the European Health Interview Survey: accounting for imperfect diagnostic accuracy of the PHQ-8

Apr 6, 2023 | mentalhealth.bmj.com | Felix R. Fischer |Dario Zocholl |Geraldine Rauch |Brooke Levis

DiscussionWe incorporated the best available evidence on the diagnostic accuracy of the PHQ-8, using a cut-off of ≥10, to estimate major depression prevalence in Europe using data from the EHIS survey.

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