Tech giant Google has joined forces with the National Alliance on Mental Illness to provide US users searching for the terms “depression” or “clinical depression" with a clinically valid questionnaire. The private assessment, called PHQ-9, can help individuals decide if they should seek medical assistance for their depression. In an interview with Reuters, Dr. David Kupfer, director of the Center for Cognitive and Neural Health at Stanford University, said that while he was not familiar with Google’s research, it is likely to be
Tech giant Google has joined forces with the National Alliance on Mental Illness to provide US users searching for the terms “depression” or “clinical depression" with a clinically valid questionnaire. The private assessment, called PHQ-9, can help individuals decide if they should seek medical assistance for their depression. The test should also help to raise awareness of the condition, which around one in five Americans experiences in their lifetime.