Psychiatry · Primary Care
DSM-5 Major Depressive Episode Criteria calculator
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weeks
Allowed range: 0–104 weeks
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Clinical inputs
- Depressed mood most of the day, nearly every day
- Markedly diminished interest or pleasure (anhedonia)
- Increase or decrease in appetite or weight
- Insomnia or hypersomnia
- Psychomotor agitation or retardation observable by others
- Fatigue or loss of energy
- Feelings of worthlessness or excessive guilt
- Diminished concentration or indecisiveness
- Recurrent thoughts of death or suicidal ideation
- Weeks the symptom cluster has lastedAccepted range: 0 to 104
- Clinically significant distress or impairment
- Not attributable to a substance or another medical condition
Primary source
American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition. 2013. DOI: 10.1176/appi.books.9780890425596. A major depressive episode requires at least 5 of the 9 symptoms during the same 2-week period, at least one of which is depressed mood or anhedonia, with clinically significant distress or impairment, not attributable to a substance or another medical condition. (2013)
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