Author(s): Thombs BD; Levis AW; Azar M; Saadat N; Riehm KE; Sanchez TA; Chiovitti MJ; Rice DB; Levis B; Fedoruk C; Lyubenova A; Malo Vázquez de Lara AL ...

Objectives: We evaluated whether sample sizes in different arms of two-arm parallel group randomized controlled trials of nonregulated interventions were systematically closer in size than would pl ...

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Author(s): Wu Y; Levis B; Riehm KE; Saadat N; Levis AW; Azar M; Rice DB; Boruff J; Cuijpers P; Gilbody S; Ioannidis JPA; Kloda LA; McMillan D; Patten S ...

Background: Item 9 of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) queries about thoughts of death and self-harm, but not suicidality. Although it is sometimes used to assess suicide risk, most posit ...

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Author(s): Levis B; Benedetti A; Riehm KE; Saadat N; Levis AW; Azar M; Rice DB; Chiovitti MJ; Sanchez TA; Cuijpers P; Gilbody S; Ioannidis JPA; Kloda L ...

Background: Different diagnostic interviews are used as reference standards for major depression classification in research. Semi-structured interviews involve clinical judgement, whereas fully str ...

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Author(s): Ishihara M; Harel D; Levis B; Levis AW; Riehm KE; Saadat N; Azar M; Rice DB; Sanchez TA; Chiovitti MJ; Cuijpers P; Gilbody S; Ioannidis JPA; ...

Background: The objective of this study was to develop and validate a short form of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), a self-report questionnaire for assessing depressive symptomatology, ...

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Author(s): Azar M; Riehm KE; Saadat N; Sanchez T; Chiovitti M; Qi L; Rice DB; Levis B; Fedoruk C; Levis AW; Kloda LA; Kimmelman J; Benedetti A; Thombs ...

Importance: Many interventions that are important to the health care of patients are not subject to regulation by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or comparable regulatory bodies in other ...

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