Yet another measure in the PHQ (Patient Health Questionnaire) set, alongside the PHQ-4 and much more widely known (at least in the UK) PHQ-9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It consists of just two items from the PHQ-9 with the stem of all the PHQ measures: “Over the last 2 weeks, how often have you been bothered by the following problems?” The two items are: “Little interest or pleasure in doing things” and “Feeling down, depressed or hopeless” and, again in line with all the PHQ measures the scoring is on a four point scale: “Not at all”, “Several days”, “More than half the days” and “Nearly every day” scored 0, 1, 2 and 3 so the score range is from zero to six. It is described as a screening measure but its screening parameters, even in use where depression is very prevalent, will be terrible and clearly the score range is very limited for any use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why have we got into, in the 21st Century, this love affair with ultra short measures?! Hm, that’s for another entry Christopher!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not covered in the OMbook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Currently one of my shiny apps<\/a> models screening: https:\/\/shiny.psyctc.org\/apps\/Screening\/<\/a>. More to be done on that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n First created 23.v.26, tweaks 24.v.26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yet another measure in the PHQ (Patient Health Questionnaire) set, alongside the PHQ-4 and much more widely known (at least in the UK) PHQ-9. Details It consists of just two items from the PHQ-9 with the stem of all the PHQ measures: “Over the last 2 weeks, how often have you been bothered by the … Continue reading PHQ-2<\/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-5379","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry"],"year_month":"2026-05","word_count":213,"total_views":"3","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\/5379","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=5379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/5379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5384,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/5379\/revisions\/5384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=5379"},{"taxonomy":"glossaries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossaries?post=5379"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=5379"},{"taxonomy":"knowledge_base","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_base?post=5379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Dates<\/h4>\n\n\n\n