Your Results — Depression Test:
Moderately Severe Depression
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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
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Option 2: Track your scores manually:
- Print or email your initial results. This is your baseline.
- Continue to screen at regular intervals (for example, every 2 weeks).
- Note any changes in your Total Score (above).
- 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
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Your Answers
1. Little interest or pleasure in doing things
Nearly every day (3)
2. Feeling down, depressed, or hopeless
Nearly every day (3)
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
More than half the days (2)
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
Not at all (0)
10. If you checked off any problems, how difficult have these problems made it for you at work, home, or with other people?
Very difficult
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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More Info & Resources for Depression
This test was taken on March 3, 2021, 12:05 am EST. To view this result on the web, visit:
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Learn more about Depression at https://screening.mhanational.org/depression/
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