Form: Patient Health Questionnaire, PHQ-9

1 – Not at all
2 – Several days
3 – More than half the days
4 – Nearly every day
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1
2
3
4
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.

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The answer numbers are used only to label response columns. They are NOT scores and should not be used for calculating results.