Distress Questionnaire 5 (DQ5)
Description
A brief scale of psychological distress.A brief scale of psychological distress.
Test Features
Administration details
Administration type: Self-report
Structured interview?
N/A
Timeframe:Past month.
Approx time: 0-5 minutesAccessing the assessment and manual information
Access information:
- Batterham, P. J., Sunderland, M., Carragher, N., Calear, A. L., Mackinnon, A. J., & Slade, T. (2016). The Distress Questionnaire-5: Population screener for psychological distress was more accurate than the K6/K10. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 71, 35-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2015.10.005
License details
Free to Use?
Yes
Crosswalk information:
- Crosswalk with the Patient Health Questionnaire-4 (PHQ-4), Kessler-6 (K6), Kessler Psychological Distress Scale -10 (K10), Mental Health Inventory-5, Hopkins Symptom Checklist-25 (HSCL-25), Self-Report Questionnaire-20 (SRQ-20), and the Distress Thermometer: Batterham, P., Sunderland, M., Slade, T., Calear, A., & Carragher, N. (2018). Assessing distress in the community: Psychometric properties and crosswalk comparison of eight measures of psychological distress. Psychological Medicine, 48(8), 1316-1324. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291717002835