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PHQ-9

Escrito por Equipo de informática para pacientesPublicado originalmente 9 de septiembre de 2025

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Please note that this questionnaire is not designed for people to complete without any input from their healthcare professional.

Please contact your doctor if you are:

Concerned about your mood; or
Have completed this questionnaire and it indicates that you may be depressed.

If you are having any thoughts of self-harm, please read our leaflet on Dealing with Suicidal Thoughts, which gives advice on all the help that is available.

This easy to use patient questionnaire is a self-administered version of the PRIME-MD diagnostic instrument for common mental disorders.¹ The PHQ-9 is the depression module, which scores each of the nine DSM-IV criteria as "0" (not at all) to "3" (nearly every day). It has been validated for use in primary care.²

It is not a screening tool for depression but it is used to monitor the severity of depression and response to treatment. However, it can be used to make a tentative diagnosis of depression in at-risk populations - eg, those with coronary heart disease or after stroke.³⁴

When screening for depression the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-2) can be used first (it has a 97% sensitivity and a 67% specificity).⁵ If this is positive, the PHQ-9 can then be used, which has 61% sensitivity and 94% specificity in adults.

Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9)

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Validity has been assessed against an independent structured mental health professional (MHP) interview. PHQ-9 score ≥10 had a sensitivity of 88% and a specificity of 88% for major depression.¹ It can even be used over the telephone.⁶

Nota sobre créditos

The copyright for the PHQ-9 was formerly held with Pfizer, who provided the educational grant for Drs Spitzer, Williams and Kroenke who originally designed it.¹This is no longer the case and no permission is required to reproduce, translate, display or distribute the PHQ-9.

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Lecturas adicionales y referencias

Kroenke K, Spitzer RL, Williams JB; The PHQ-9: validity of a brief depression severity measure. J Gen Intern Med. 2001 Sep 16(9):606-13.
Cameron IM, Crawford JR, Lawton K, et al; Psychometric comparison of PHQ-9 and HADS for measuring depression severity in primary care. Br J Gen Pract. 2008 Jan 58(546):32-6. doi: 10.3399/bjgp08X263794.
Haddad M, Walters P, Phillips R, et al; Detecting depression in patients with coronary heart disease: a diagnostic evaluation of the PHQ-9 and HADS-D in primary care, findings from the UPBEAT-UK study. PLoS One. 2013 Oct 10 8(10):e78493. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078493.
de Man-van Ginkel JM, Gooskens F, Schepers VP, et al; Screening for post stroke depression using the patient health questionnaire. Nurs Res. 2012 Sep-Oct 61(5):333-41.
Maurer DM; Screening for depression. Am Fam Physician. 2012 Jan 15 85(2):139-44.
Pinto-Meza A, Serrano-Blanco A, Penarrubia MT, et al; Assessing depression in primary care with the PHQ-9: can it be carried out over the telephone? J Gen Intern Med. 2005 Aug 20(8):738-42.