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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 3 Nov 2020

      Health Nerd Retweeted Elemental

      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 🙄https://twitter.com/elemental/status/1323533016476618752 …

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      ElementalVerified account @elemental
      A new study estimates that depression rates have likely tripled due to the pandemic. *Tripled.* http://read.medium.com/5Kkgw63 
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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 3 Nov 2020

      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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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 3 Nov 2020

      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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    4. Ioana A. Cristea‏ @IoanaA_Cristea 3 Nov 2020
      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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    5. Ioana A. Cristea‏ @IoanaA_Cristea 3 Nov 2020
      Replying to @IoanaA_Cristea @GidMK

      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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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 3 Nov 2020
      Replying to @IoanaA_Cristea

      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

      1:11 AM - 3 Nov 2020
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