1: Little interest or pleasure in doing things
2: Feeling down, depressed, or hopeless
3: Trouble falling or staying asleep, or sleeping too much
4: Feeling tired or having little energy
5: Poor appetite or overeating
6: Feeling bad about yourself — or that you are a failure or have let yourself or your family down
7: Trouble concentrating on things, such as reading the newspaper or watching television
8: 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
9: Thoughts that you would be better off dead or of hurting yourself in some way
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?
PHQ-9 0 — Minimal depression
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The PHQ is a self-reported questionnaire used to screen, diagnose, monitor, and measure the severity of depression. The most common version, the PHQ-9, includes 9 questions based on DSM criteria. Each item is scored from 0 (not at all) to 3 (nearly every day), giving a total score from 0 to 27.
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