MDCalc

Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology (QIDS)

Rates depression symptoms via self-assessment, also known as QIDS-SR-16.

Sleep (calculation uses highest score from items 1-4)

1. Sleep onset insomnia:
2. Mid-nocturnal insomnia:
3. Early morning insomnia:
4. Hypersomnia:

Mood

5. Mood (sad):

Weight (calculation uses highest score from items 6-9

6. Appetite (decreased):
7. Appetite (increased):
8. Weight (decrease) within the last two weeks:
9. Weight (increase) within the last two weeks:

Concentration

10. Concentration/decision making:

Guilt

11. Outlook (self):

Suicidal Ideation

12. Suicidal ideation:

Interest

13. Involvement:

Fatigue

14. Energy/fatigability:

Psychomotor Changes (calculation uses highest score from items 15-16)

15. Psychomotor slowing:
16. Psychomotor agitation:

Result:

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Advice

Patients with depression should be provided with further resources and potentially referred to psychiatry, as well as be screened for emergency psychiatric conditions like suicidal ideation or psychosis.