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The '''General Symptoms''' are based on the [http://www.phqscreeners.com/instructions/instructions.pdf '''Patient Health Questionnaire Physicial Symptoms PHQ-15'''].

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{| class="wikitable sortable"
!style="width:40%;background: #e3e3e3" align="left"|Over the last 2 weeks, how often have you been bothered by the following problems?
!style="width:10%;background: #e3e3e3;"|Not at all
!style="width:10%;background: #e3e3e3;"|Several days
!style="width:10%;background: #e3e3e3;"|Over half the days
!style="width:10%;background: #e3e3e3;"|Nearly every day
|-


|style="background-color: #FFCCCC" align="left"|[[Q15|1. Little interest or pleasure doing things]]
|align="center"|0
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|2
|align="center"|3
|-
|style="background-color: #FFCCCC" align="left"|[[Q16|2. Feeling down, depressed, or hopeless]]
|align="center"|0
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|2
|align="center"|3
|-
|style="background-color: #FFCCCC" align="left"|[[MH Depression PHQ-3|3. Trouble failing asleep, or sleeping too much]]
|align="center"|0
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|2
|align="center"|3
|-
|style="background-color: #FFCCCC" align="left"|[[MH Depression PHQ-4|4. Feeling tired or having little energy]]
|align="center"|0
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|2
|align="center"|3
|-
|style="background-color: #FFCCCC" align="left"|[[MH Depression PHQ-5|5. Poor appetite or overeating]]
|align="center"|0
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|2
|align="center"|3
|-

|style="background-color: #FFCCCC" align="left"|[[MH Depression PHQ-6|6. Feeling bad about yourself - or that you are a failure or have let yourself or your family down]]
|align="center"|0
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|2
|align="center"|3
|-
|style="background-color: #FFCCCC" align="left"|[[MH Depression PHQ-7|7. Trouble concentrating on things, such as reading the newspaper or watching television]]
|align="center"|0
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|2
|align="center"|3
|-
|style="background-color: #FFCCCC" align="left"|[[MH Depression PHQ-8|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]] 
|align="center"|0
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|2
|align="center"|3
|-
|style="background-color: #FFCCCC" align="left"|[[MH Depression PHQ-9|9. Thoughts that you would be better off dead or of hurting yourself in some way]]
|align="center"|0
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|2
|align="center"|3
|-
|style="background-color: #FFCCCC" align="right"|Total the score
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|-
|style="background-color: #FFCCCC" align="right"|
|align="center"|
|align="center"|
|align="center"|=Total Score
|align="center"|_____ 
|-
|}
 	
'''If you checked off <u>any</u> problems, how <u>difficult</u> have these problems made it for you to do your work, take care of things at home, or get along with other people?'''<br>	
□ Not difficult at all <br>     
□ Somewhat difficult <br>   
□ Very difficult <br>    
□ Extremely difficult<br>

==Interpreting PHQ-9 Scores==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
!style="width:20%;background: #e3e3e3" align="left"|Diagnosis
!style="width:10%;background: #e3e3e3;"|Total Score
!style="width:10%;background: #e3e3e3;"|For Score
!style="width:40%;background: #e3e3e3;"|Suggested Action
|-


|align="left"|Minimal depression
|align="center"|0-4
|align="center"|≤ 4
|style="background-color: #FFCCCC" align="left"|The score suggests the patient may not need depression treatment
|-
|align="left"|Mild depression<br>Moderate depression
|align="center"|5-9<br>10-14
|align="center"|5-14
|style="background-color: #FFCCCC" align="left"|Physician uses clinical judgement about treatment, based on patient's duration of symptoms and functional impairment
|-
|align="left"|Moderately severe depression<br>Severe depression
|align="center"|15-19<br>20-27
|align="center"|> 14 
|style="background-color: #FFCCCC" align="left"|Warrants treatment for depression, using antidepressant, psychotherapy and/or combination of treatment
|-
|}

The PHQ-9 is described in more detail at the [http://www.phqscreeners.com/ '''Pfizer website'''].