Mood and Feeling Questionnaire (MFQ)

The Mood and Feelings Questionnaire measures depressive symptoms in children and young adults. The MFQ Child Self Report is a 33 item measure and the MFQ Parent Report a 34 item measure (Angold & Costello, 1987). The questionnaires consist of a series of descriptive phrases regarding how the subject has been feeling or acting recently. Responses reflect whether the phrase was descriptive of the subject most of the time, sometimes or not at all in the past two weeks.

There is also a 33 item MFQ Adult Self-Report with Spanish translation that appears on this site.

Shortened, 13 item versions of both the Child Self Report and the Parent Report (Angold et al., 1995) are available in English at: http://devepi.duhs.duke.edu/mfq.html

Measure Source Article:

Angold, A., Costello, E. J., Pickles, A. & Winder, F. (1987). The development of a questionnaire for use in epidemiological studies of depression in children and adolescents. London: Medical Research Council, Child Psychiatry Unit. (Unpublished manuscript)

 

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Translation Information:

With the permission of Dr. Brian Small (a contributing author), the MFQ was translated by the COMET study, (University of Miami Protocol # 20150187) team, Principal Investigators Drs. Jensen-Doss and Ehrenreich-May.  The translation process consisted of 3 steps: translation, back translation and verification by a third party.

 

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