PHQ-9 Screening - Behavioral Healthcare Providers

The PHQ-9 is tool used to screen for symptoms of depression.

These screening questions focus on the symptoms of depression. Please read each question carefully, then select the answer that indicates how much you have been bothered by that problem in the past 2 weeks. During the entire screening, no information is collected, stored or sent over the internet. To ensure complete privacy, exit your web browser after completing this screening.

Over the last 2 weeks, how often have you been bothered by any of the following problems?*

	Not at all	Several days	More than half the days	Nearly every day
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

If you checked off any problem on this questionnaire so far, 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?*
Not Difficult at All Somewhat Difficult Very Difficult Extremely Difficult
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This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

References: https://phqscreeners.pfizer.edrupalgardens.com/sites/g/files/g10016261/f/201412/01_Bibliography%20by%20author.pdf

Psychometric properties can be found: https://phqscreeners.pfizer.edrupalgardens.com/sites/g/files/g10016261/f/201412/instructions.pdf

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