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Table 4 Final consensus questions- adapted PHQ-9

From: Depression in Aboriginal men in central Australia: adaptation of the Patient Health Questionnaire 9

Questions

None

A little bit

Most of the time

All of the time

In the last two weeks, how often have you been feeling the following:

1

Have you been feeling slack, not wanted to do anything?

0

1

2

3

2

Have you been feeling unhappy, depressed, really no good, that your spirit was sad?

0

1

2

3

3

Have you found it hard to sleep at night, or had other problems with sleeping?

0

1

2

3

4

Have you felt tired or weak, that you have no energy?

0

1

2

3

5a$

Have you not felt like eating much even when there was food around?

0

1

2

3

5b$

Have you been eating too much food?

0

1

2

3

6

Have you been feeling bad about yourself, that you are useless, no good, that you have let your family down?

0

1

2

3

7

Have you felt like you can’t think straight or clearly, its hard to learn new things or concentrate?

0

1

2

3

8a$

Have you been talking slowly or moving around really slow?

0

1

2

3

8b$

Have you felt that you can’t sit still; you keep moving around too much?

0

1

2

3

9

Have you been thinking about hurting yourself or killing yourself?

0

1

2

3

  

Total score (0–27)

 
  1. $Note: Scores for depressive symptoms - record only the highest in each of these sub-questions.