Measured using the score from the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), a nine item
depression-screening instrument that asks about the frequency of symptoms of depression
in the past 2 weeks. Response categories of 鈥渘ot at all,鈥 鈥渟everal days,鈥 鈥渕ore than half the
days,鈥 and 鈥渘early every day鈥 are given a score of 0 to 3. Summary scores ranged from 0 to 27.
Depression was defined using a score of 10 or higher, a well-validated cut point used in primary
care settings.
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Share of adults with depression in the U.S. from 2013 to 2016, by age
This statistic shows the percentage of adults in the U.S. with depression from 2013 to 2016, by age. During this period, around eight percent of those aged 60 years and older had depression, compared to 7.7 percent of those aged 20 to 39 years.
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