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Purpose Depressive symptoms of patients with intracranial tumors need to be assessed adequately. The Patient Health Questionnaire for Depression and Anxiety (PHQ-4) is an ultra-short screening tool consisting of four items, a cutoff of six indicates depressive symptoms. The aim was to assess patients’ psychological burden by the PHQ-4 compared with the results of well-established screening instruments...
ObjectivePsychological distress is highly prevalent but often undiagnosed in brain tumor patients. We evaluated the psychometric properties of the Patient Health Questionnaire‐2 (PHQ‐2) for screening of distressed neurosurgical brain tumor patients.
MethodsA total of 226 (69% women; mean age 55.6 ± 14.7 years) consecutive patients on admission for elective brain tumor surgery were evaluated for psychological...
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