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Purpose: To investigate the validity of the Patient Health Questionnaire for Adolescents (PHQ-A), a self-administered instrument that assesses anxiety, eating, mood, and substance use disorders among adolescent primary care patients.
Clinical Utility The PHQ-9 is brief and useful in clinical practice. The PHQ-9 is completed by the patient in minutes and is rapidly scored by the clinician. The PHQ-9 can also be administered repeatedly, which can reflect improvement or worsening of depression in response to treatment.Scoring See PHQ-9 Scoring on next page. PHQ scores â¥ 10 had a sensitivity of 88% and a specificity of 88% for major depression.n PHQ-9 scores of 5, 10, 15, and 20 represents mild, moderate, moderately severe and severe depression. 1 1. Kroenke K, Spitzer R, Williams W. The PHQ-9: Validity of a brief depression severity measure.