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Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9)

Online test

Other depression tests:
BDI-II SDS PHQ-9 HADS MDI

Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) — a brief screening tool for assessing the severity of depressive symptoms.

It consists of 9 questions corresponding to the diagnostic criteria for a depressive episode (DSM-5) and evaluates the frequency of symptoms over the past two weeks. Compared to more extensive scales, it is designed for rapid quantitative screening with an assessment of the impact on daily functioning.

The results are indicative and do not constitute a medical diagnosis.

Online test

Instructions:

Rate how often you have been bothered by the following problems over the past two weeks and select one answer for each item.

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