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Calculator: Depression screening by a nine-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) in adults


Calculator: Depression screening by a nine-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) in adults

 
Over the last two weeks, how often have you been bothered by any of the following problems?
 
Little interest or pleasure in doing things

 
Feeling down, depressed, or hopeless

 
Trouble falling or staying asleep, or sleeping too much

 
Feeling tired or having little energy

 
Poor appetite or overeating

 
Feeling bad about yourself, or that you are a failure, or have let yourself or your family down

 
Trouble concentrating on things, such as reading the newspaper or watching television

 
Moving or speaking so slowly that other people could have noticed? Or the opposite, being so fidgety or restless that you have been moving around a lot more than usual

 
Thoughts that you would be better off dead or of hurting yourself in some way

 

 
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Total criteria point count:
 

 

PHQ-9 score interpretation

 
0 to 4 points: No depression
5 to 9 points: Mild depression
10 to 14 points: Moderate depression
15 to 19 points: Moderately severe depression
20 to 27 points: Severe depression

 
Notes
  • PHQ-9 is adapted from PRIME MD TODAY, developed by Drs. Robert L Spitzer, Janet BW Williams, Kurt Kroenke, and colleagues, with an educational grant from Pfizer Inc.

 
References
  1. Kroenke K, Spitzer RL. The PHQ-9: A new depression and diagnostic severity measure. Psychiatric Annals 2002; 32:509.
  2. Kroenke K, Spitzer RL, Williams JB. The PHQ-9: validity of a brief depression severity measure. J Gen Intern Med 2001; 16:606.
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