Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9)
Kroenke, K., Spitzer, R.L. and Williams, J.B., 2001. The PHQ‐9: validity of a brief depression severity measure. Journal of general internal medicine, 16(9), pp.606-613.
TEN Digital Mental Health Check-up
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Alcohol use
This set of questions consider your relationship with alcohol and drinking behaviours.
Answer the following questions about your alcohol use during the past 12 months. "Alcoholic beverages" refer to beer, wine, spirits, etc. Please answer in terms of "standard drinks".
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How have you been feeling?
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Let's see how you’ve been feeling...
Welcome to the TEN Digital Mental Health Check-up
Support for health professionals
Healthcare can be a rewarding profession, but it can also be a stressful one. The TEN Digital Mental Health Check-up has been designed to help you identify and overcome challenges to your emotional wellbeing and connect you with evidence-based support.
How does it work?
When you complete the check-up, we’ll send you an assessment report that identifies any symptoms of depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress and burnout you might be experiencing.
The report will help you understand your symptoms and provide you with a range of flexible and evidence-based options for treatment and support.
These include:
- information and digital resources to help you manage your well-being
- up to five private telehealth consultations with our expert clinical team
- links to a range of professional support options to suit your specific needs
You can also use the insights from this report to talk to your GP or mental health professional about your emotional wellbeing. If you are in distress or immediate danger, dial 000 as soon as possible or contact Lifeline on 13 11 14.
Your privacy matters
We understand that confidentiality is extremely important to health professionals. Resources can be accessed anonymously. TEN is not funded by Medicare. Your interactions with the service won’t be recorded on ‘My Health Record’.
If you’re worried about privacy, AHPRA reporting or anything else, see our FAQs.
Please read our full Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
Welcome to the mental health assessment. Let's start by getting to know a little about you.
The following four questions are optional.
Over the last 2 weeks, how often have you been bothered by any of the following problems?
From your last response it sounds as though you are having a particularly difficult time at the moment.
We want to ask you some more questions to get a full picture of what has been happening, but before we do this, we just want to make sure that you know that you can call Lifeline on 13 11 14.
This is an Australian phone number you can use 24 hours a day. If you or someone else is in immediate danger, call 000 immediately.
If you’re not from Australia, here is a link which gives you information about mental health worldwide https://www.iasp.info/resources/Crisis_Centres/
In the last 30 days…
Your responses indicate that you’ve had few concerns about your mental health over the past month – in general, it sounds like you’re feeling okay.
If this is accurate, that’s great news – but it’s still worth thinking about how to maintain your wellbeing into the future. Have a look at the resources under Helping Myself and My Team for some useful tips.
If this is not accurate, that’s okay. Mental health can be complex, which means that sometimes simple questions might not capture your experiences. The next step is to complete our more detailed screening assessments (see below). This will help us gather more details about your emotional wellbeing so we can connect you with the right support.
Your responses indicate that you’ve been having quite a few concerns about your mental health over the past month. It’s really important to explore this in more detail so that we can connect you with the right support.
The next step is to complete our more detailed screening questionnaires (see below). We recommend you complete all five questionnaires before deciding on the treatment or support options that are the best fit. The report is also a great tool to help start a conversation with your GP or health professional.
If you don’t want to complete the questionnaires, head to the Helping Myself and My Team sections for resources or visit Talk to someone to access professional or peer support.
Please select atleast one option.
Is there anything else bothering you?
What’s worrying you? (select all that apply)
Feeling low
Feeling anxious
Memories of difficult experiences
Feeling burnt out
Not meeting responsibilities
None of these
The mental health self-assessment is based on reliable and valid questionnaires, but it can’t take the place of a clinical assessment by a qualified health professional.
Please note: These screening questionnaires do not provide a comprehensive clinical assessment or a diagnosis of a mental disorder. If you are concerned about your symptoms, please seek help from your doctor or a mental health professional.
The names and published references of the questionnaires included in this assessment are listed below.
Feeling low
Feeling anxious
Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7)
Spitzer, R.L., Kroenke, K., Williams, J.B. and Löwe, B., 2006. A brief measure for assessing generalized anxiety disorder: the GAD-7. Archives of internal medicine, 166(10), pp.1092-1097.
Difficult experiences
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5)
Zuromski, K.L., Ustun, B., Hwang, I., Keane, T.M., Marz, B.P., Stein, M.B., Ursano R.J., and Kessler, R.C. (2019). Developing an optimal short-form of the PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5). Depress Anxiety. 36(9):790‐800.
Feeling burnt-out
Oldenburg Burnout Inventory (OBI)
Demerouti, E., & Bakker,A. B.(2008). The Oldenburg Burnout Inventory: A good alternative to measure burnout and engagement. In J. Halbesleben (Ed.), Handbook of stress and burnout in health care (pp. 65–78). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.
Meeting responsibilities
Work and Social Adjustment Scale (WSAS)
Mundt JC , Marks IM , Shear MK , et al . The Work and Social Adjustment Scale: a simple measure of impairment in functioning. Br J Psychiatry 2002;180:461–4.doi:10.1192/bjp.180.5.461
Over the last 2 weeks, how often have you been bothered by any of the following problems?
Traumatic experience
The following are symptoms that people sometimes have after experiencing, witnessing or being confronted with a traumatic event, or learning that these things happened to someone you are close to (e.g., family member or friend).
How much have the following symptoms bothered you since the trauma/stressful event?
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Below you find a series of statements with which you may agree or disagree. Using the scale, please indicate the degree of your agreement by selecting the number that corresponds with each statement.
We would now like to ask you four questions about problems that people sometimes have in response to a very stressful experience. Please read each problem carefully and then indicate how much you have been bothered by that problem in the past month.
To rate your problems look at each section and determine on the scale provided how much your problem impairs your ability to carry out the activity.
Thank you for taking the time to complete the mental health assessment.
Please check all that apply (optional)
Please tell us more about you so we can better understand the needs of healthcare workers.
If other, please specify
Please tell us more about you.
Strongly disagree
Strongly agree
Please select atleast one option.
Please tell us more about you.
If you use a different term, please specify
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