Item name

Depression Anxiety Stress Scale: Q17

epiCentre name

DASSQ17

Definition

Patient response to DASS statement “I felt I wasn’t worth much as a person” from selection of responses detailed in values below

Usage

The score on this item contributes to the DASS depression score (see 2.5.100)

ID

2-161

Mandatory

Source

Lovibond SH and Lovibond PF (1995) Manual for the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (2nd Edition). Sydney:
Psychology Foundation. ISBN 7334-1423-0 (http://www2.psy.unsw.edu.au/dass/)

Element of

Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS)

Business rules

Nil

Dependencies

Data type

Numeric

Format

N

Maximum length

1

Data domain

Code	Description
0	Did not apply to me at all
1	Applied to me to some degree, or some of the time
2	Applied to me to a considerable degree, or a good part of the time
3	Applied to me very much, or most of the time

Conditions

Nil

Level

Survey

Derived item

Derived by

Not applicable