Penfield Psychiatry
Mental Health Assistant

Patient Health Questionnaire

Patient Health Questionnaire PHQ-9

The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) is a clinical instrument for screening, diagnosing, monitoring, and measuring the severity of depression. Comprising nine questions, it aligns with the criteria for major depressive disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).

Response Options: Each question is rated on a scale of 0 to 3, based on the frequency of the symptom over the past two weeks:

0: Not at all
1: Several days
2: More than half the days
3: Nearly every day

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Patient Health Questionnaire

1 / 10

Little interest or pleasure in doing things

2 / 10

Feeling down, depressed, or hopeless

3 / 10

Trouble falling or staying asleep, or sleeping too much

4 / 10

Feeling tired or having little energy

5 / 10

Poor appetite or overeating

6 / 10

Feeling bad about yourself-or that you are a fail have let yourself or your family down

7 / 10

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

8 / 10

Moving or speaking so slowly that other people c have noticed. Or the opposite-being so figety o restless that you have been moving around a lot than usual

9 / 10

Thoughts that you would be better off dead, or of hurting yourself

10 / 10

If you checked off any problems, how difficult have these problems made it for you to do your work, take care of things at home, or get along with other people?

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