Patient Health Questionnaire
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Introduction[edit | edit source]
Patient health Questionnaire (PHQ)
- is a self-administered version of the PRIME-MD diagnostic instrument for common mental disorders.
- incorporate DSM-IV depression criteria with other leading major depressive symptoms into a brief self-report instruments that are commonly used for screening and diagnosis, as well as selecting and monitoring treatment.
- has two versionPHQ-9 and PHQ-2.
- the depression module, which scores each of the 9 DSM-IV criteria as “0” (not at all) to “3” (nearly every day).
Objective[edit | edit source]
The objective of patient health questionnaire (PHQ) is to detect and assess the severity of the depression of the individual.
