{"id":6582,"date":"2020-11-17T17:22:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T17:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-us\/?p=6582"},"modified":"2025-02-13T15:32:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T20:32:45","slug":"somatic-physical-symptoms-phq-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-us\/somatic-physical-symptoms-phq-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Somatic \/ Physical Symptoms | PHQ-15"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adapted Patient Health Questionnaire 15 (PHQ-15)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Recommended\u00a0frequency: Every 2 weeks<\/em><\/p>\n

Summary<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

This measure has been adapted from the Patient Health Questionnaire Physical Symptoms (PHQ-15) by the American Psychiatric Association (“APA”) for use by children and adolescents.The PHQ-15 is a well-validated scale that can be used to screen for somatization concerns and monitor symptom severity.<\/p>\n

The APA version is identical to the 15-item version, although two items have been removed. Each item evaluates the degree to which an individual has been bothered by a specific somatic concern during the past week on a 3-point Likert scale. Higher scores on the PHQ-15 correspond to increased functional impairment. The self-report scale can be used by individuals between the ages of 11 to 17. A parent\/caregiver version is also available and can be completed by individuals whose child is between the ages of 6 to 17.<\/p>\n

Psychometric Properties of the PHQ-15<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

The PHQ-15 demonstrates good internal consistency (\u03b1 = .80) when used by adults. It also has good test-retest reliability and convergent validity with the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and General Health Questionnaire-12 (GHQ-12).<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/p>\n

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  1. https:\/\/www.psychiatry.org\/psychiatrists\/practice\/dsm\/educational-resources\/assessment-measures<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/11914441<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3278967\/<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/19996228<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Adapted Patient Health Questionnaire 15 (PHQ-15) Recommended\u00a0frequency: Every 2 weeks Summary This measure has been adapted from the Patient Health Questionnaire Physical Symptoms (PHQ-15) by the American Psychiatric Association (“APA”) for use by children and adolescents.The PHQ-15 is a well-validated scale that can be used to screen for somatization concerns and monitor symptom severity. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"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":[3,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-assessment-guide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6582","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}