The PHQ-15: Validity of a New Measure for Evaluating the Severity of Somatic Symptoms

By K. Kroenke, R. Spitzer, Janet B W Williams. Psychosomatic Medicine, 2002

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Somatization increases medical utilization and costs independent of psychiatric and medical comorbidity. (2005, background): “Role impairment Intermediate activities of daily living (1-100)† 65.”
Anxiety Disorders in Primary Care: Prevalence, Impairment, Comorbidity, and Detection (2007, methodology): “Consistent with previous work (1, 26, 29, 39), we replaced missing values in a scale with the mean value of the remaining items if 25% or fewer items were missing.”
On the dark side of work: a longitudinal analysis using self-determination theory (2017, methodology): “Therefore, we cannot confirm that the somatic symptoms were in fact unexplained, although Kroenke et al. (2002) argued that the presence of three or more symptoms is not likely to have a medical cause.”
Improving access to psychological therapy: initial evaluation of the two demonstration sites (2008, neutral): “For the PHQ-9, a score of 10 or over indicates clinical caseness; for the GAD-7, recent research indicates a score of 8 or over indicates clinical caseness (Kroenke et al, 2002; 2007).”
Association of posttraumatic stress disorder with somatic symptoms, health care visits, and absenteeism among Iraq war veterans. (2007, methodology): “The symptoms were scored, per established criteria (23), as 0 (not bothered at all), 1 (bothered a”
Insult, then Injury: Interpersonal and Institutional Betrayal Linked to Health and Dissociation (2017, methodology): “Distress related to health was assessed with the Somatization scale of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-15; Kroenke et al., 2002).”
The Patient Health Questionnaire Somatic, Anxiety, and Depressive Symptom Scales: a systematic review. (2010, methodology): “Finally, the PHQ-15 was derived from the original PHQ studies and is increasingly used to assess somatic symptom severity and the potential presence of somatization and somatoform disorders [9].”
Managerial support for basic psychological needs, somatic symptom burden and work-related correlates: A self-determination theory perspective (2014, methodology): “The Patient Health Questionnaire-15 (PHQ-15) (Kroenke et al., 2002) assessed somatic symptom burden.”
Standardization of the depression screener patient health questionnaire (PHQ-9) in the general population. (2013, methodology): “A longer version of the SF-12, the SF-20, was already previously used to assess functional impairment in combination with the PHQ-15 [27,28].”
Psychosocial safety climate as a moderator of the moderators: Contextualizing JDR models and emotional demands effects (2018, result): “Good psychometric properties of high internal consistency a = .80 and construct validity were reported in previous studies (Gierk et al., 2015; Hauser, Brahler, Wolfe, & Henningsen, 2014; Kroenke et al., 2002).”