Ugh this is an irresponsible headline and a pretty dubious study. Compared NHANES to an internet survey conducted in April that used a 13-point rating of depression *symptoms*, not depression diagnoses
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One big issue with this is that transient depression symptoms do not meet the criteria for a diagnosis of depression in most cases, and a single survey done at the start of the pandemic may not be sufficient to describe the true situation
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I think all you could reasonably say from this is that people in this particular survey were experiencing a high burden of worry in April in the U.S., but what this means for mental health issues long term is quite hard to discern
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Replying to @GidMK
I think you should look more into the literature on the PHQ-9, e.g. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32515813/ Also this is a survey on a nationally representative sample, as explained in the methods. So really, dubious does not cut it at all. (No idea about the Medium post, which I did not read).
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More generally, peer-review by Twitter still should revise the relevant literature before making claims like calling PHQ-9 "a 13-item scale" with no reference to other studies that used it or researched it.
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That's fair, I should have been more specific about the scale. That being said, I'm still not sure that the single cross-sectional sample used in this study says an enormous amount
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