Brief Patient Health Questionnaire (Brief PHQ)
The Brief Patient Health Questionnaire (Brief PHQ) is a self-administered scale for assessing depressive disorders and panic disorders. It is derived from the depression questions within the full Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) and Patient Health Questionnaire 9 (PHQ-9), plus additional items on stressors and women’s health.
The PHQ family of measures, including abbreviated and alternative versions as well as the GAD-7, were developed by Drs. Robert L. Spitzer, Janet B. W. Williams, Kurt Kroenke, and colleagues, with an educational grant from …