ODQ
Oxford Depression Questionnaire (ODQ)
The ODQ is a patient-centered self-report questionnaire designed to measure emotional blunting in people with depression, particularly during antidepressant treatment. It explores four clinically useful dimensions: general reduction in emotions, reduction in positive emotions, emotional detachment, and no longer caring. It helps the psychologist objectively document a common complaint that is often poorly differentiated between residual depressive symptoms, anhedonia, apathy, and emotional effects attributed to antidepressants.
- Number of questions
- 26 questions
- Estimated duration
- 5 minutes
- Language
- English
- Original name
- Oxford Depression Questionnaire
- Target audience
- Adults
- Authors
- Jonathan Price, Victoria Cole, Helen Doll, Guy M. Goodwin (2012)
- Category
- Depression
Scoring & interpretation
Each item is rated from 1 to 5, from disagree to agree. Scores are summed. For patients not taking an antidepressant, the ODQ-20 score is used, i.e., the first 20 items, with a total ranging from 20 to 100. For patients taking an antidepressant, the ODQ-26 score is used, including the 6 items of section 3 on attribution to treatment and impact on adherence, with a total ranging from 26 to 130. Higher scores indicate more marked emotional blunting. Interpretation is based mainly on the total score, the dimension profile, and changes over time, rather than on a single universally established diagnostic cutoff.
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