Prevalence, Treatment, and Control of Depressive Symptoms in the United States: Results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), 2005–2008

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Table 1.

Population with Mild, Moderate, Moderately Severe, and Severe Depressive Symptoms from Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ)-9 Scores, by Age and Sex*

Table 2.

Population Receiving Pharmacologic or Behavioral Depression Treatment, by Depressive Symptoms*

	Depressive Symptoms
	Moderate(PHQ-9 score = 10–14)	Moderately Severe(PHQ-9 score = 15–19)	Severe(PHQ-9 score ≥20)	Moderately Severe and Severe (PHQ-9 score ≥ 15)
Pharmacologic treatment only	16.9 (13.1–21.5)	17.9 (13.0–24.1)	14.4 (6.5–28.9)	17.0 (12.7–22.6)
Mental health professional only	13.3 (9.3–18.9)	15.6 (9.9–23.7)	23.9 (13.9–37.9)	17.6 (12.0–25.1)
Both pharmacologic treatment and mental health professional	11.1 (7.9–15.5)	11.6 (8.1–16.4)	24.8 (12.1–44.0)	14.8 (10.8–19.9)
Neither pharmacologic treatment nor mental health professional	58.8 (51.9–60.6)	54.9 (47.3–62.2)	36.9 (24.8–51.0)	50.6 (43.8–57.4)

Values provided as % (95% CI).
* Based on Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ)-9 scores. Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2005 to 2008.