PHQ Panic
ValidatedPatient Health Questionnaire – Panic Module (PHQ)
18+ yearsSelf~2 min15 questions
Questions about anxiety. Answer each question "Yes" or "No".
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About this screener — evidence, source
The anxiety-attack questions from the full Patient Health Questionnaire (also used in the Brief PHQ and PHQ-SADS). Four questions about attacks in the last 4 weeks are followed by 11 physical symptoms of the last bad attack, scored with the official PHQ algorithm for panic syndrome.
Evidence · validated
Validated as part of the PHQ in 3000 US primary-care patients, 585 of whom had an independent mental-health professional interview; agreement for any PHQ diagnosis was kappa 0.65, sensitivity 75% and specificity 90% (Spitzer et al., 1999). Module-specific accuracy is not reported in the abstract.
Source & licence
Spitzer RL, Kroenke K, Williams JBW, and the Patient Health Questionnaire Primary Care Study Group. Validation and utility of a self-report version of PRIME-MD: the PHQ primary care study. JAMA. 1999;282(18):1737–1744. Developed by Drs Robert L. Spitzer, Janet B.W. Williams, Kurt Kroenke and colleagues, with an educational grant from Pfizer Inc.
Licence: Public domain — the PHQ instruction manual states no permission is required to reproduce, translate, display or distribute
Questions 3a–d and 4a–k of the official English PHQ; scoring from the form's office-coding footer and Table 2 of the PHQ Instruction Manual.
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