Behavioral health screeners
Validated screeners for the everyday primary-care, OB, and inpatient visit.
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PHQ-9 for depression, GAD-7 for anxiety, AUDIT-C and CAGE for alcohol use, EPDS for postpartum mood, Mini-Cog for cognition, CIWA-Ar for alcohol withdrawal, and COWS for opioid withdrawal. Every screener ships a worked example and the primary citation.
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Tools in this topic
- PHQ-9 Depression Screener Score the PHQ-9 depression screener.
- GAD-7 Anxiety Screener Administer the seven-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale (Spitzer 2006).
- AUDIT-C Alcohol Screener Administer the three-item AUDIT-C alcohol-use screen (Bush 1998).
- CAGE Alcohol Screener Score the four-question CAGE alcohol-use disorder screen.
- Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale Score the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), a ten-item validated screen for perinatal and postpartum depression.
- Mini-Cog Cognitive Screener Score the Mini-Cog three-minute cognitive screen.
- CIWA-Ar (alcohol withdrawal) Score the revised Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment for Alcohol (CIWA-Ar, Sullivan 1989) across its…
- COWS (opioid withdrawal) Score the Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale (Wesson 2003) across its 11 observed and reported items.