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GAD-7: anxiety severity

Neuro & psych scales

Seven items over the last two weeks. Public domain. Screens for generalised anxiety and performs reasonably for panic, social anxiety and PTSD.

What you enter

  • 1. Feeling nervous, anxious, or on edge: Not at all / Several days / More than half the days / Nearly every day
  • 2. Not being able to stop or control worrying: Not at all / Several days / More than half the days / Nearly every day
  • 3. Worrying too much about different things: Not at all / Several days / More than half the days / Nearly every day
  • 4. Trouble relaxing: Not at all / Several days / More than half the days / Nearly every day
  • 5. Being so restless that it is hard to sit still: Not at all / Several days / More than half the days / Nearly every day
  • 6. Becoming easily annoyed or irritable: Not at all / Several days / More than half the days / Nearly every day
  • 7. Feeling afraid as if something awful might happen: Not at all / Several days / More than half the days / Nearly every day
FORMULASum of 7 items (0–3 each); 5 / 10 / 15 = mild / moderate / severe
SourceSpitzer RL, Kroenke K, Williams JB, Löwe B. A brief measure for assessing generalized anxiety disorder: the GAD-7. Arch Intern Med 2006;166:1092-7ReviewedFormula and thresholds checked against the source on 2026-08-22. If the source updates, this line will say so.