Table 1.

Patient health questionnaire (PHQ-8) scoring and interpretation with BRFSS response conversion [17]

Over the last 2 weeks, how often have you been bothered by any of the following problems?	PHQ-8	Not at all	Several days	More than half the days	Nearly every day
	BFRSS conversion	0 - 1 day	2 - 6 days	7 - 11 days	12 - 14 days
1. Little interest or pleasure in doing things		0	1	2	3
2. Feeling down, depressed, or hopeless		0	1	2	3
3. Trouble falling or staying asleep, or sleeping too much		0	1	2	3
4. Feeling tired or having little energy		0	1	2	3
5. Poor appetite or overeating		0	1	2	3
6. Feeling bad about yourself—or that you are a failure or have let yourself or your family down		0	1	2	3
7. Trouble concentrating on things, such as reading the newspaper or watching television		0	1	2	3
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		0	1	2	3

Interpretation of Total Score/Total Score Depression Severity: 0–4 None, 5–9 Mild depression, 10–14 Moderate depression, 15–19 moderately severe depression, 20–24 severe depression.