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.

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