The questionnaire contained questions about the parent´s background, the adoption process as well as a scale, Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), to rate symptoms of depression according to the diagnostic criteria DSM-IV-TR.
Spurningar um bakgrunn og ættleiðinguna voru lagðar fyrir þátttakendur ásamt sjálfsmatskvarða, Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) sem metur einkenni þunglyndis samkvæmt greiningarviðmiðum DSM-IV-TR.