Abstract

CORREA ARANGUREN, Iris Gladys et al. Bibliometric study on psychometric investigations of the PHQ-9 in the Scopus database. Vive Rev. Salud [online]. 2025, vol.8, n.24, pp.1202-1222.  Epub Sep 02, 2025. ISSN 2664-3243.  https://doi.org/10.33996/revistavive.v8i24.444.

A bibliometric analysis study was conducted regarding psychometric research with the Patient Health Questionnaire, version 9 (PHQ-9). The objectives were: to identify the bibliometric characteristics of research related to psychometric studies with the PHQ-9 and to analyze the distribution of publications according to: year, author, institution, country-region, publication sources, co-citations and keyword analysis. The sample was 290 articles published in the Scopus database from 2001 to 2023 for the analysis. The search equation was: Subject = (PHQ-9) and (validity), (PHQ-9) and (reliability), (PHQ-9) and (psychometric); language (English and Spanish) and type of literature (article or review article). It was found that the journal with the highest impact was Journal of Affective Disorders and Kurt Kroenke and Scott Patten were the most productive authors. Likewise, the Autonomous University of Madrid had the largest psychometric publication of the PHQ-9; in co-authorship, three institutions produced three documents with 413 citations: Department of Medicine and Department of Psychiatry of McGill University, as well as the Lady Davis Medical Research Institute of the Jewish General Hospital of Montreal; in terms of the largest contribution to scientific research, the United States with 97 articles (33.44%).

Keywords : Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9); Bibliometrics; Validity; Reliability; Psychometrics.

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