import type { AssessmentDefinition } from "../types.ts"; import { twoWeekFrequencyOptions, twoWeekInstructions } from "./common.ts"; /** * PHQ-9 — Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (depression screening). * * 9 items, 0–3 frequency scale, total score 0–27. Item 9 raises a * `suicidality` flag when answered above 0. The PHQ-9 is in the public * domain (Kroenke, Spitzer & Williams, 2001; developed with a grant from * Pfizer Inc.). Translations follow published validated versions — verify * against the official wording before clinical use. */ export const phq9: AssessmentDefinition = { id: "phq9", version: "1.0.0", categories: ["depression"], audience: ["adult"], respondent: "self", title: { en: "Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9)", }, description: { en: "A 9-item self-report questionnaire for screening and measuring the severity of depression.", }, instructions: twoWeekInstructions, defaultLocale: "en", options: twoWeekFrequencyOptions, questions: [ { id: "phq9-1", text: { en: "Little interest or pleasure in doing things", }, }, { id: "phq9-2", text: { en: "Feeling down, depressed, or hopeless", }, }, { id: "phq9-3", text: { en: "Trouble falling or staying asleep, or sleeping too much", }, }, { id: "phq9-4", text: { en: "Feeling tired or having little energy", }, }, { id: "phq9-5", text: { en: "Poor appetite or overeating", }, }, { id: "phq9-6", text: { en: "Feeling bad about yourself — or that you are a failure or have let yourself or your family down", }, }, { id: "phq9-7", text: { en: "Trouble concentrating on things, such as reading the newspaper or watching television", }, }, { id: "phq9-8", text: { en: "Moving or speaking so slowly that other people could have noticed? Or the opposite — being so fidgety or restless that you have been moving around a lot more than usual", }, }, { id: "phq9-9", text: { en: "Thoughts that you would be better off dead or of hurting yourself in some way", }, }, ], scoring: { kind: "sum", missing: { strategy: "prorate", minAnswered: 7 }, bands: [ { id: "minimal", min: 0, max: 4, label: { en: "Minimal depression" }, }, { id: "mild", min: 5, max: 9, label: { en: "Mild depression" }, }, { id: "moderate", min: 10, max: 14, label: { en: "Moderate depression" }, }, { id: "moderately-severe", min: 15, max: 19, label: { en: "Moderately severe depression" }, }, { id: "severe", min: 20, max: 27, label: { en: "Severe depression" }, }, ], flags: [ { id: "suicidality", questionId: "phq9-9", minValue: 1, label: { en: "Self-harm or suicidal ideation reported (item 9) — requires clinical attention", }, }, ], }, meta: { reference: "Kroenke, K., Spitzer, R. L., & Williams, J. B. (2001). The PHQ-9: validity of a brief depression severity measure. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 16(9), 606-613.", license: "Free — no permission required to reproduce, translate, display or distribute (Pfizer educational grant)", licenseFlag: "free", translationProvenance: "en: reproduced from the original. Other locales (tr, de, zh, es): AI translation (Anthropic Claude, claude-fable-5) from the original English; official translations were not consulted and the texts are unverified. See SOURCES.md.", timeframe: "past 2 weeks", }, };