(August 11, 2023 at 10:52 am)Bucky Ball Wrote:Really their standard in name only because peoples minds are rarely standard(August 11, 2023 at 10:42 am)Helios Wrote: That's absurd we rely on self-reporting to huge degree and there are no universal symptoms of depression there are guidelines but those are not gospel. One mans depression is not another mans depression. Also when comes to gender i doubt any such test can exist there are to many factors to gender to make such test reliable or meaningful gender identity is a personnel identity that is based on the individual and their definitions of what they mean when they use it and their is noting in science that contradicts this.
There is a fairly standard self-reporting tool that in many states is required for Family Practice preventive visits and others I'm sure I don't know about, (probably Post Partum visits).
Many clinical research studies track the use of this tool, along with all the data the actual study is about.
It's called the PHQ-9. For established patients known to the providers, the scoring system is known to be useful.
I'd have to look up the research on it, but, just an example of a known, useful tool in wide use.
https://www.hiv.uw.edu/page/mental-healt...ning/phq-9
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