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 | |
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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) |