NUR 601 Week 3 Blog Post 1 Autonomy And You

wo screening tools chosen- 1 for depression, one for anxiety

Student explains rationale for both screening tool choices (2-3 sentences)

both screening tools are scored using provided case study information onlyAND scores are

interpreted using tool scoring guidelines.

The screening tool chosen for depression is the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9). The

screening tool selected for anxiety is the General Anxiety Disorder scale (GAD-7)

The PHQ-9 is a patient health questionnaire that assess depressive symptoms, function

impairment, and screens for major symptoms experienced over the past 2 weeks; it is comprises

of 9 items, which are then added together to result a score ranging from 0 through 27 (Kennedy-

Malone, Plank, & Duffy, 2019). The advantages of PHQ-9 are its brevity, sensitivity and

specificity, and its effectiveness as both a diagnostic and severity measure for major depression

(Ng, How, & Ng, 2016). General Anxiety Disorder is a self-report questionnaire for screening

and severity measuring signs of general anxiety disorder, it score rang for 0-21, the higher the

score the more sever the anxiety (Jordan, Shedden-Mora, & Löwe, 2017).

PHQ-9:

Over the last 2 weeks, how often have you been bothered by any of the following problems? (0 =

not at all, 1 = several days, 2 = more than half the days, 3 = nearly every day)

1. Little interest or pleasure in doing things = 3

2. Feeling down, depressed, or hopeless = 3

3. Trouble falling or staying asleep, or sleeping too much = 1

4. Feeling tired or having little energy = 3

5. Poor appetite or overeating = 3

6. Feeling bad about yourself or you are a failure or have let yourself or your family down = Not

known

7. Trouble concentrating on things, such as reading the newspaper or watching television = 2

8. Moving or speaking so slowly that other people could have noticed? Or the opposite—being

so fidgety or restless that you have been moving around a lot more than usual = Not Known

9. Thoughts that you would be better off dead or of hurting yourself in some way = Not Known

Total score = 15 (the patient has moderately severe depression)