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. 2020 Aug 15;137:110219. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2020.110219

Table 2.

Descriptive statistics for the PHQ-9 items among the college students with depressive symptoms.a

PHQ-9 items (M ± SD)
Little interest or pleasure in doing things 2.91 ± 0.84
Feeling tired or having little energy 2.91 ± 0.79
Trouble falling or staying asleep, or sleeping too much 2.83 ± 0.89
Poor appetite or overeating 2.58 ± 0.88
Feeling down, depressed, or hopeless 2.55 ± 0.79
Trouble concentrating on things 2.48 ± 0.89
Feeling bad about yourself or that you are a failure 2.51 ± 0.88
Moving or speaking so slowly that other people could have noticed 2.17 ± 0.89
Thoughts that you would be better off dead or of hurting yourself 1.61 ± 0.82
Total score 13.56 ± 3.78

Abbreviations: PHQ-9, Patient Health Questionnaire; M, mean; SD, Standard deviation.

a

Students with depressive symptoms were those scoring PHQ-9 ≥ 10.