scoring_phq15: Scoring the PHQ-15 questionnaire

In nrkoehler/qscorer: Procedures for Scoring Health-related Questionnaires

Description

The Patient Health Questionnaire 15 item (PHQ-15) contains the PHQ's somatic symptom scale. It is a well-validated measure, which asks whether symptoms are present and about their severity. (see: Wikipedia)

Usage

scoring_phq15(data, items = 1:15, keep = TRUE, nvalid = 12, digits = NULL)

Arguments

data	a data.frame containing the PHQ-15 items orderd from 1 to 15. The data.frame may contain further variables.
items	A character vector with the PHQ-15 item names ordered from 1 to 15, or a numeric vector indicating the column numbers of the PHQ-15 items in data.
keep	Logical, whether to keep the single items and whether to return variables containing the number of non-missing items on each scale for each respondent. The default is TRUE.
nvalid	A numeric value indicating the number of non-missing items required for score calculations. The default is 12.
digits	Integer of length one: value to round to. No rounding by default.

Details

• Number of items: 15

• Item range: 0 to 2

• Reverse items: none

• Score range: 0 to 30

• Cut-off-values: < 5 = "minimal"; 5 to 9 = "mild"; 10 to 14 = "moderate"; ≥ 15 = "severe"

• Minimal clinically important difference: none

• Treatment of missing values: Questionnaires with up to three missing values (20%) are scored, replacing any missing values with the average score of the completed items.

Value

The function returns 3 variables:

• nvalid.phq15: Number of valid values (MAX=15)

• score.phq15: PHQ-15 score

• cutoff.phq15: PHQ-15 as categorical variable

References

Kroenke et al. 2010 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2010.03.006)

Kocalevent et al. 2013 (https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-13-91)

Examples

## Not run: 
library(dplyr)
items.phq15 <- paste0("phq_", seq(1, 15, 1))
scoring_phq15(mydata, items = items.phq15)

## End(Not run)

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