Measurement invariance of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale (GAD-7) across four European countries during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Abstract Background The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale (GAD-7) are self-report measures of major depressive disorder and generalised anxiety disorder. The primary aim of this study was to test for differential item functioning (DIF) on the PHQ-9 and GAD-7 items based on age, sex (males and females), and country. Method Data from nationally representative surveys in UK, Ireland, Spain, and Italy (combined N = 6,054) were used to fit confirmatory factor analytic and multiple-indictor multiple-causes models. Results Spain and Italy had higher latent variable means than the UK and Ireland for both anxiety and depression, but there was no evidence for differential items functioning. Conclusions The PHQ-9 and GAD-7 scores were found to be unidimensional, reliable, and largely free of DIF in data from four large nationally representative samples of the general population in the UK, Ireland, Italy and Spain.
Male, Psychometrics, 150, RC435-571, 610, Anxiety, Patient Health Questionnaire, Depressive Disorder, Major/diagnosis, Surveys and Questionnaires, Humans, Pandemics, GAD-7, COVID-19/epidemiology, Measurement invariance, Psychiatry, Depressive Disorder, Depressive Disorder, Major, Depression, SARS-CoV-2, Research, Major, COVID-19, PHQ-9, Anxiety; Depression; GAD-7; Measurement invariance; PHQ-9; Anxiety; Depression; Female; Humans; Male; Pandemics; Patient Health Questionnaire; Psychometrics; SARS-CoV-2; Surveys and Questionnaires; COVID-19; Depressive Disorder, Major, Major/diagnosis, Female
Male, Psychometrics, 150, RC435-571, 610, Anxiety, Patient Health Questionnaire, Depressive Disorder, Major/diagnosis, Surveys and Questionnaires, Humans, Pandemics, GAD-7, COVID-19/epidemiology, Measurement invariance, Psychiatry, Depressive Disorder, Depressive Disorder, Major, Depression, SARS-CoV-2, Research, Major, COVID-19, PHQ-9, Anxiety; Depression; GAD-7; Measurement invariance; PHQ-9; Anxiety; Depression; Female; Humans; Male; Pandemics; Patient Health Questionnaire; Psychometrics; SARS-CoV-2; Surveys and Questionnaires; COVID-19; Depressive Disorder, Major, Major/diagnosis, Female
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