Self-assessment: Phobias (PHQ-2)

The APA offers several “emerging measures” for further research and clinical evaluation. These patient assessment measures were developed to be administered at the initial patient interview and to monitor treatment progress. They should be used in research and evaluation as potentially valuable tools to enhance clinical decision-making and not as the sole basis for making a clinical diagnosis. Instructions, scoring information, and interpretation guidelines are provided; further background information can be found in DSM-5-TR.

The APA requests that clinicians and researchers provide further data on the instruments’ usefulness in characterizing patient status and improving patient care at http://www.dsm5.org/Pages/Feedback-Form.aspx.

This measure was adapted from Marks, I. M., & Matthews, A. M. (1979). Brief standard self-rating for phobic patients. Behaviour Research & Therapy, 17, 263-267.., which is in the public domain.  

The Phobia Questionnaire is a 15-item questionnaire used to measure a person’s avoidance of a particular object or situation as a fear factor. The PHQ yields one Total Phobia Score and three scale scores: the Agoraphobia score, the Blood-Injury Phobia score, and the Social Phobia score.

Please provide answers via the form below if you wish to take a quick self-assessment test on the Total Phobia Score, and after you complete it – you can check a specific phobia score. Alternatively, you can go directly to a particular test using the below links.