貼心! 谷歌搜尋可以幫助診斷抑鬱症!

Google is going to start asking people if they're depressed.

谷歌將要開始詢問人們是否感到抑鬱。

Users in the US who are searching for clinical depression will now be able to take a quiz within the search results, which will suggest whether or not they have the condition.

現在，美國的使用者用谷歌搜尋“臨床抑鬱症”，可以在搜尋結果中進行測驗，之後將顯示他們是否患有抑鬱症。

The company hopes that people can use the questionnaire to get help more quickly and to improve their quality of life, it said.

谷歌公司稱，他們希望人們可以因這個問卷而更快得到幫助，提高生活質量。

Noting that clinical depression is incredibly common – around one in five Americans will experience it – and that people often wait for years to get help, it said that it would add a screening questionnaire that would give people more practical help if it thinks they are searching to find out whether or not they have the condition.

值得注意的是，臨床抑鬱症是很常見的（大約每五個美國人中就有一個），人們往往等數年後才能得到幫助。谷歌表示會新增一個篩選問卷，如果搜尋引擎檢測到人們正在搜尋自己是否患抑鬱症，就會提供更實際的幫助。

The clinically validated questions, known as PHQ-9, can help identify the levels of depressive symptoms a person has and will pop up just from the search result.

臨床驗證問題PHQ-9可以幫助識別人的抑鬱程度，然後在搜尋結果中彈出結果。

People will be able to tap on a button that says "Check if you're clinically depressed" and then directed towards a quiz, which makes clear that the answers will be kept entire private.

使用者可以點選一個寫著“檢查是否患有臨床抑鬱症”的按鈕，然後直接進入一個小測驗，這個答案將全部保密。

"We hope that by making this information available on Google, more people will become aware of depression and seek treatment to recover and improve their quality of life," Google wrote in its blog post announcing the new feature.

谷歌在其部落格文章中寫道：“我們希望通過谷歌提供的這些資訊，讓更多的人瞭解抑鬱症，及時尋求治療，從而改善他們的生活質量。”