Recommended Frequency: Every 2-4 weeks The Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (MFQ) is a widely used self-report screening tool designed to assess depressive symptoms in children, adolescents, and young adults. Developed by Adrian Angold and Elizabeth J. Costello, it consists of a series of descriptive statements that reflect how a person has been feeling or behaving over the past two weeks.<\/p>\n The MFQ is validated for children and adolescents aged 6-19, and available in both long (33-item) and short (13-item) formats, as well as parent-report and adult versions. This measure is primarily used for screening and monitoring depression, rather than a standalone diagnostic tool.<\/p>\n The MFQ was developed in 1987 as part of broader research into childhood depression and has since become a widely used tool for identifying depressive symptoms in young people. The questionnaire includes a set of statements describing emotional and behavioral experiences, which respondents rate based on how true each statement has been for them recently.<\/p>\n Psychometric studies show excellent internal consistency across multiple samples and age ranges, good test\u2013retest reliability over weeks to months in community samples, convergent and concurrent validity with other depression and related measures such as the CDRS-R and RADS-2 (Thabrew et al., 2018).<\/p>\n Similar to other youth depression measures such as the CES-DC<\/a>, RCADS<\/a>, or PHQ-9<\/a>, the MFQ demonstrates high internal consistency, validity, and reliability, and effectively screens for depressive symptoms. The MFQ was specifically designed and validated for children and adolescents, and offers long and short formats, enabling flexibility between brief screenings and more comprehensive assessments.<\/p>\n There are six core versions of the MFQ, including:<\/p>\n Within the Greenspace platform, the MFQ assessment refers to the short format, while the MFQ-L refers to the long format and the MFQ-C refers to the children format. This guide will focus on administering and scoring the short, 13-item format of the adult and child MFQ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (MFQ) Recommended Frequency: Every 2-4 weeks Download Sample Summary The Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (MFQ) is a widely used self-report screening tool designed to assess depressive symptoms in children, adolescents, and young adults. Developed by Adrian Angold and Elizabeth J. Costello, it consists of a series of descriptive statements that reflect […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[59,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assessment-guide","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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About the MFQ<\/h2>\n
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