Description

The PRIME-MD (PRIMary care Evaluation of Mental Disorders) questionnaire is a tool for identifying common mental health disorders in the primary care setting. The patient is given the questionnaire for completion prior to the physician encounter. The completed questionnaire can be scored by office staff, with positive responses followed up during the examination.


 

NOTE: The form for the questionnaire is on page 1750, Spitzer et al (1994). The copyright is held by Pfizer Inc, but can be photocopied as needed.

 

Instructions:

The questionnaire will help your doctor better understand problems that you may have. Your doctor may ask you more questions about some of these items. Please make sure to check a box for every item.

 

Items:

(1) things bothering during the month: 21 items

(2) events during the past month: 5 items

(3) 5 point Likert scale on health (from excellent to poor)

 

Responses:

(1) 26 questions: yes or no

(2) overall health: one of the 5 options

 

Conditions screened for:

(1) somatoform disorders: 16 (questions 1-16)

(2) eating disorder: 1 (question 17)

(3) depression: 2 (questions 18-19)

(4) anxiety: 3 (questions 20-22)

(5) alcohol usage: 4 (questions 23-26)

 


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