Your Results — Depression Test:

Moderately Severe Depression

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About your score

Each of your answers has a score of 0-3. Click “Your Answers” above to see your score for each question. Adding these up provides your Total Score.

Not at all = 0; Several days = 1; More than half the days = 2; Nearly every day = 3

Interpreting your Total Score

  • 1-4: Minimal depression
  • 5-9: Mild depression
  • 10-14: Moderate depression
  • 15-19: Moderately severe depression
  • 20-27: Severe depression

To monitor your depression severity over time:

Option 1: Create an MHA Screening account to save your results and track changes over time.

Option 2: Track your scores manually:

  1. Print or email your initial results. This is your baseline.
  2. Continue to screen at regular intervals (for example, every 2 weeks).
  3. Note any changes in your Total Score (above).
  4. Print or email results and bring them to someone who is helping you in your recovery.

Source

PHQ9 Copyright © Pfizer Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission. PRIME-MD ® is a trademark of Pfizer Inc.

Kroenke, Spitzer, & Williams. (2001). The PHQ‐9. Journal of General Internal Medicine 16(9), 606-613. Retrieved from 
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1525-1497.2001.016009606.x/pdf

Please note: Online screening tools are not diagnostic instruments. You are encouraged to share your results with a physician or healthcare provider. Mental Health America Inc., sponsors, partners, and advertisers disclaim any liability, loss, or risk incurred as a consequence, directly or indirectly, from the use and application of these screens.

Your Answers

1. Little interest or pleasure in doing things
Nearly every day (3)
2. Feeling down, depressed, or hopeless
More than half the days (2)
3. Trouble falling or staying asleep, or sleeping too much
Nearly every day (3)
4. Feeling tired or having little energy
More than half the days (2)
5. Poor appetite or overeating
Nearly every day (3)
6. Feeling bad about yourself - or that you are a failure or have let yourself or your family down
More than half the days (2)
7. Trouble concentrating on things, such as reading the newspaper or watching television
Several days (1)
8. Moving or speaking so slowly that other people could have noticed
Several days (1)
9. Thoughts that you would be better off dead, or of hurting yourself
Several days (1)
10. If you checked off any problems, how difficult have these problems made it for you at work, home, or with other people?
Extremely difficult

Your responses indicate that you may be at risk of harming yourself. If you need immediate help, you can reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988 or using the chat box at 988lifeline.org. You can also text “MHA” to 741-741 to reach the Crisis Text Line. Warmlines are an excellent place for non-crisis support.

Based on your responses, you may have symptoms of moderately severe depression. This result is not a diagnosis. A doctor or therapist can help you get a diagnosis and/or treatment.

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