Patient Health Questionnaire

Original Editor - Manisha Shrestha Top Contributors - Manisha Shrestha and Cindy John-Chu

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Top Contributors - Manisha Shrestha and Cindy John-Chu  

Introduction

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

The objective of patient health questionnaire (PHQ) is to detect and assess the severity of the depression of the individual.