The reliability and validity of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) and PHQ-2 in patients with infertility

Table 5 Relationship of PHQ-9 and PHQ-2 with demographic and infertility characteristics

	PHQ-2		PHQ-2
	Mean (SD) or r^a	P	Mean (SD) or r	P
Age (years)	0.025	0.560	−0.014	0.741
Duration of infertility (years)	0.174	< 0.001	0.118	0.006
Sex		< 0.001		< 0.001
Male	6.84 (5.67)		1.90 (1.83)
Female	9.88 (6.25)		2.86 (1.77)
Educational level		0.152		0.731
Primary	9.59 (6.46)		2.54 (1.91)
Secondary	8.10 (6.18)		2.35 (1.83)
University	8.33 (6.05)		2.41 (1.86)
Cause of infertility		0.968		0.651
Male factor	8.38 (6.15)		2.42 (1.87)
Female factor	8.49 (6.16)		2.21 (1.71)
Both	8.38 (5.61)		2.51 (1.81)
Unexplained	8.72 (6.83)		2.50 (2.02)
Failure of previous treatment		0.009		0.022
No	7.74 (5.92)		2.22 (1.88)
Yes	9.12 (6.33)		2.59 (1.83)
History of abortion		0.057		0.157
No	8.15 (6.05)		2.34 (1.81)
Yes	9.26 (6.42)		2.59 (1.95)

PHQ-9 Patient Health Questionnaire-9, PHQ-2 Patient Health Questionnaire-2, SD Standard Deviation
^aPearson correlation coefficient

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