{"id":4701,"date":"2025-02-06T08:45:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T07:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=4701"},"modified":"2025-02-07T21:26:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T20:26:41","password":"","slug":"phq-8","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/phq-8\/","title":{"rendered":"PHQ-8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The eight item version of the Patient Health Questionnaire.  The PHQ-9 with a final question about risk to self: &#8220;Thoughts that you would be better off dead or of hurting yourself in some way&#8221; is more used but it is argued that it is less likely to upset people if the version without that item is used. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Try also<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/phq-9-patient-health-questionnaire-9-items\/\" title=\"\">PHQ-9<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chapters<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The PHQ-9 is mentioned in Chapter 4 but not the PHQ-8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Online resources<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>None.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dates<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>First created 6.ii.25, link added 7.ii.25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eight item version of the Patient Health Questionnaire. The PHQ-9 with a final question about risk to self: &#8220;Thoughts that you would be better off dead or of hurting yourself in some way&#8221; is more used but it is argued that it is less likely to upset people if the version without that item &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/phq-8\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PHQ-8<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[],"glossaries":[],"doc_tag":[],"knowledge_base":[],"class_list":["post-4701","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry"],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":81,"total_views":"362","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"chris","author_nicename":"chris","author_url":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/author\/chris\/"},"doc_category_info":[],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/4701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/4701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4705,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/4701\/revisions\/4705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=4701"},{"taxonomy":"glossaries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossaries?post=4701"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=4701"},{"taxonomy":"knowledge_base","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_base?post=4701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}