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Beck Depression Scale

Definition of Depression:
A state of low mood that disrupts the course of an individual’s daily life. It affects the individual’s overall functioning, and in its most severe cases, depression may lead an individual to contemplate ending their life.

About the Scale:
This scale was translated into Arabic by Dr. Eid Al-Ibrahim. It provides clinicians with a reliable and quick tool to screen for the severity of depressive symptoms. The scale consists of 12 items, each with four graded responses. It measures the depth of symptoms associated with depression and uses a scoring system from 0 to 3 to indicate the severity of each symptom.

In this scale there are twenty-one groups of statements. Please read each group separately. You will find that every four statements deal with a specific topic. Choose the one statement that you feel best describes your condition and feelings during this week, then select the number of that statement (0, 1, 2, or 3).
Make sure you read all the statements in each group carefully before choosing one, and make sure you have answered every group.

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Email

Date of Birth

Marital Status

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Q1:

I do not feel sad.

I feel sad much of the time.

I am sad all the time and can’t snap out of it.

I am so sad or unhappy that I can’t stand it.

Q2:

I am not particularly discouraged about the future.

I feel discouraged about the future.

I feel there is nothing to look forward to.

I feel that the future is hopeless and that things cannot improve.

Q3:

I do not feel like a failure.

I feel I have failed more than the average person.

As I look back on my life, all I can see is a lot of failures.

I feel I am a complete failure as a person.

Q4:

I get as much satisfaction out of things as I used to.

I don’t enjoy things the way I used to.

I get very little pleasure from the things I used to enjoy.

I can’t get any pleasure from the things I used to enjoy.

Q5:

I don’t feel particularly guilty.

I feel guilty a good part of the time.

I feel quite guilty most of the time.

I feel guilty all of the time.

Q6:

I don’t feel I am being punished.

I feel I may be punished.

I expect to be punished.

I feel I am being punished.

Q7:

I don’t feel disappointed in myself.

I am disappointed in myself.

I am disgusted with myself.

I hate myself.

Q8:

I don’t feel I am any worse than anybody else.

I am critical of myself for my weaknesses or mistakes.

I blame myself all the time for my faults.

I blame myself for everything bad that happens.

Q9:

I don’t have any thoughts of killing myself.

I have thoughts of killing myself, but I would not carry them out.

I would like to kill myself.

I would kill myself if I had the chance.

Q10:

I don’t cry any more than usual.

I cry more now than I used to.

I cry all the time now.

I used to be able to cry, but now I can’t even if I want to.

Q11:

I am no more irritated now than I ever am.

I get annoyed or irritated more easily than I used to.

I feel irritated all the time now.

I don’t get irritated at all by things that used to bother me.

Q12:

I have not lost interest in other people.

I am less interested in other people than I used to be.

I have lost most of my interest in other people.

I have lost all of my interest in other people.

Q13:

I make decisions about as well as I ever could.

I put off making decisions more than I used to.

I have greater difficulty in making decisions than before.

I can’t make decisions at all anymore.

Q14:

I don’t feel that I look any worse than I used to.

I am worried that I am looking old or unattractive.

I feel there are permanent changes in my appearance that make me look unattractive.

I believe that I look ugly.

Q15:

I can work about as well as before.

It takes an extra effort to get started doing something.

I have to push myself very hard to do anything.

I can’t do any work at all.

Q16:

I can sleep as well as usual.

I don’t sleep as well as I used to.

I wake up 1–2 hours earlier than usual and have difficulty getting back to sleep.

I wake up several hours earlier than I used to and can’t get back to sleep.

Q17:

I don’t get more tired than usual.

I get tired more easily than I used to.

I get tired from doing almost anything.

I am too tired to do anything.

Q18:

My appetite is no worse than usual.

My appetite is not as good as it used to be.

My appetite is much worse now.

I have no appetite at all anymore.

Q19:

I haven’t lost much weight, if any, lately.

I have lost more than five pounds.

I have lost more than ten pounds.

I have lost more than fifteen pounds.

Q20:

I am no more worried about my health than usual.

I am worried about physical problems like aches, pains, or stomach upsets.

I am very worried about physical problems and find it hard to think of anything else.

I am so worried about my physical problems that I can’t think about anything else.

Q21:

I have not noticed any recent change in my interest in sex.

I am less interested in sex than I used to be.

I have almost no interest in sex now.

I have lost interest in sex completely.

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