{"id":4673,"date":"2017-08-24T09:36:21","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T09:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/?p=4673"},"modified":"2017-08-24T09:36:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T09:36:21","slug":"people-us-can-take-google-test-check-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2017\/08\/24\/people-us-can-take-google-test-check-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"People in US can take Google test to check depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People in the US will soon have an option to take a screening test on Google to know if they are depressed or not.<!--more-->Now, when users in the US will search for \u201cdepression\u201d on Google, they will see a box atop the results on mobile, which the search giant calls a Knowledge Panel, The Verge reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Knowledge Panel contains information on what depression is, what its symptoms are and the possible treatments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe update adds the option to tap on \u2018check if you\u2019re clinically depressed\u2019 and take a clinically validated screening questionnaire called PHQ-9. The self-assessment is private and is meant to help steer people who might be depressed toward in-person evaluations,\u201d the report noted.<\/p>\n<p>According to Google spokesperson Susan Cadrecha, the feature is being rolled out on mobile in the US soon and it is not meant to subvert a medical evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe results of the PHQ-9 can help you have a more informed conversation with your doctor,\u201d according to National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), which partnered with Google on the questionnaire.<\/p>\n<p>According to NAMI, clinical depression is fairly common condition with almost one in five Americans experiencing an episode in their lifetime. But only about 50 per cent of people who have depression get treated for it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IANS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Picture courtesy: Alamy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People in the US will soon have an option to take a screening test on Google to know if they are depressed or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,108],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4675,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673\/revisions\/4675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}