Validity, reliability and cut-offs of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 as a screening tool for depression among patients living with epilepsy in Rwanda

• Fidèle Sebera,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations CARAES Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Ndera, Kigali, Rwanda, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Kigali (CHUK), Kigali, Rwanda

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• Joao Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical School, Durham, NC, United States of America, Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States of America

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• Josiane Umwiringirwa,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation CARAES Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Ndera, Kigali, Rwanda

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• Dirk E. Teuwen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UCB Pharma, Brussels, Belgium

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• Paul E. Boon,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

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• Peter Dedeken

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: info.dedekenneurologie@gmail.com

  Affiliations UCB Pharma, Brussels, Belgium, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium, Heilig Hart Hospitaal, Lier, Belgium

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8493-6276

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