What is PHQ-9?
A nine-item questionnaire screening for depression symptoms over the past two weeks.
9 items · 0–3 each · 7 of 27
Which statement fits PHQ-9?
Answer it in your own words in the app.
In real work
PHQ-9 scores screen for depression; only a clinician can diagnose.
In the illustration
The nine levers drop into their notches one by one and the totaliser adds them to 7 out of a possible 27. No severity label is shown.
Explain in your health app what the PHQ-9 asks, what the score range means, and why the result is a screening to discuss and not a diagnosis.
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