Independence & Lee’s Summit Pediatrics

Patient Health Questionnaire and General Anxiety Disorder
(PHQ-9 and GAD-7)

Patient name  
Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9)
Over the last 2 weeks how often have you been bothered by any of the following problems? Please select the answer that best applies to you.
   1. Little interest or pleasure in doing things.  
   2. Feeling down, depressed or hopeless.  
   3. Trouble falling or staying asleep, or sleeping too much.  
   4. Feeling tired or having little energy.  
   5. Poor appetite or overeating.  
   6. Feeling bad about yourself – or that you are a failure or have let yourself or your family down.  
   7. Trouble concentrating on things, such as reading or watching television.  
   8. 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.  
   9. Thoughts that you would be better off dead, or of hurting yourself in some way.  
If you checked any problems, how difficult have these made it for you to do your work, take care of things at home, or get along with other people?  
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7)
Over the last 2 weeks how often have you been bothered by any of the following problems? Please select the answer that best applies to you.
   1. Feeling nervous, anxious or on edge.  
   2. Not being able to stop or control worrying.  
   3. Worrying too much about different things.  
   4. Trouble relaxing.  
   5. Being so restless that it’s hard to sit still.  
   6. Becoming easily annoyed or irritable.  
   7. Feeling afraid as if something awful might happen.  
If you checked any problems, how difficult have these made it for you to do your work, take care of things at home, or get along with other people?  

Developed by Drs. Robert L. Spitzer, Janet B.W. Williams, Kurt Kroenke and colleagues, with an educational grant from Pfizer Inc. No permission required to reproduce, translate, display or distribute, 1999. UHS Rev 4/2020
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