Depression Evaluation And Monitoring Instruments – Part 1

In medicine our job as physicians is to help our patients achieve their health and wellness goals.

And for depression treatment we need tools to diagnose depression, determine the patient’s distressing symptoms, determine the effectiveness of our treatments, and to monitor for side effects of our treatments.

All of the above require the use of structured interview forms.

Here are some of the forms and resources that can be used:

Assessing Suicide Risk Using the SAFE-T Suicide Assessment Tool
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Monitoring Your Depression Treatment
Posted on October 5, 2011 by Tom Wade MD

• For Depression Monitoring
  • Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology—Self Report (QIDS-SR)
  • Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9)
• Quality Of Life Measures
  • SF-36
  • Health Related Quality of Life (HQROL) 14
• Medication Side Effect Profile Monitoring
• Screening For Bipolar Disorder
  •  Mood Disorders Questionnaire
  • Screening Assessment of Depression Polarity (SAD-P)

Psychiatric Assessment Measures Useful In Primary Care From DSM-5
Posted on July 22, 2016 by Tom Wade MD