Over the last 2 weeks, how often have you been bothered by the following problems?
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About this screener — evidence, source, alternatives
Seven core anxiety symptoms rated from 0 to 3 over the last two weeks. Designed for generalized anxiety disorder, it also has good operating characteristics for panic disorder, social anxiety disorder and PTSD, and is widely used to track response to treatment.
Evidence · validated
In 965 US primary-care patients interviewed by mental-health professionals, a cut-point of 10 gave sensitivity 89% and specificity 82% for generalized anxiety disorder (Spitzer et al., 2006). Kroenke et al. (2007) found AUCs of 0.80–0.91 for GAD, panic, social anxiety and PTSD. Validated in adults; cut-points of 5, 10 and 15 mark mild, moderate and severe anxiety.
Free alternative to
- Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) · Pearson
Paid anxiety severity inventory; the GAD-7 is the free, widely validated alternative.
Source & licence
Spitzer RL, Kroenke K, Williams JBW, Löwe B. A brief measure for assessing generalized anxiety disorder: the GAD-7. Arch Intern Med. 2006;166(10):1092–1097. Developed by Drs Robert L. Spitzer, Janet B.W. Williams, Kurt Kroenke and colleagues, with an educational grant from Pfizer Inc.
Licence: Public domain — the PHQ instruction manual states no permission is required to reproduce, translate, display or distribute
Item wording and cut-points from the official English GAD-7 form and the PHQ/GAD-7 Instruction Manual (phqscreeners.com).
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