Next, because the study included patients with a moderately severe level of symptomatology, the current findings may not generalize to patients with milder or residual symptoms of schizophrenia.
Based on the PHQ-9/8 score cut points, depression is divided into multiple levels: mild, moderate, moderately severe, and severe [ 11].
This scale can range from intact (level 0), borderline intact, mild, moderate, moderately severe and severe impairment to very severe impairment (level 6) [ 42].
Model 3 examined a dose response effect of depression across categories (moderate, moderately severe, and severe) relative to participants with none/mild levels of depressive symptoms adjusting for sociodemographics, cutaneous allodynia, SRPD-anxiety, and migraine pain intensity.
The score range was 1 7, where level 1 denotes severe dysphagia, level 2 moderately-severe dysphagia, level 3 moderate-dysphagia, level 4 mild-to-moderate dysphagia, level 5 mild-dysphagia, level 6 within functional limit/modified independence, and level 7 normal under all situations.
17 The time in each disease state (predementia, mild, moderate, moderately severe, or severe) was computed.
PHQ-9 scores of 5, 10, 15, and 20 represent mild, moderate, moderately severe, and severe depression, respectively [ 12].
Note: PHQ-9 scores of ≥10, ≥15 and ≥20 represent cut points for moderate, moderately severe and severe depression symptomology.
The baseline measures suggest that most of the women had moderate to moderately severe depression, as well as moderately high levels of anxiety.
Recruitment methods which focussed on community promotion effectively reached individuals with moderate to moderately severe depression (mean PHQ-9 score 14.5) and moderate levels of anxiety (mean GAD-7 score 12.0).
