“Birthday blues” is sometimes used in epidemiological studies to describe occasionally observed effect of higher suicide ratios around birthdays. It is also colloquially used to describe a general feeling of disappointment, anxiety, etc. due to another year passing by, low achievement, or not having the expectations regarding birthday c...

By Savina Šmit

The Patient Health Questionnaire – PHQ-9 is a well known self-report measure of nine depression symptoms according to DSM-IV/DSM-V criteria. As the PHQ-9 is not yet validated in most of former Yugoslavian countries, the goal of this research was to determine its factor structure and psychometric properties on a large non-clinical BCS language...

By Siniša Subotić, Ivan Knežević, Strahinja Dimitrijević, Dalibor Miholjčić, Savina Šmit, Mirjana Karać, Jelena Mijatović