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Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale Screener (ASRS v1.1)

Six questions on attention, organization and restlessness, to see whether your symptoms are consistent with adult ADHD.

6 items · About 1 min

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How to answerThis screener is intended for people aged 18 years or older. Choose the answer that best describes how you have felt and conducted yourself over the past 6 months.

  1. How often do you have trouble wrapping up the final details of a project, once the challenging parts have been done?
  2. How often do you have difficulty getting things in order when you have to do a task that requires organization?
  3. How often do you have problems remembering appointments or obligations?
  4. When you have a task that requires a lot of thought, how often do you avoid or delay getting started?
  5. How often do you fidget or squirm with your hands or feet when you have to sit down for a long time?
  6. How often do you feel overly active and compelled to do things, like you were driven by a motor?
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About this scale

The ASRS v1.1 Screener was developed with the World Health Organization and the Workgroup on Adult ADHD. Its six questions are the ones from the 18-item symptom checklist that best predict adult ADHD. Answers of "Sometimes" or more on questions 1–3, and "Often" or more on questions 4–6, each count once; 4 or more suggests symptoms consistent with adult ADHD. It is a starting point, not a diagnosis, which can only be made through a clinical evaluation.

SourceKessler, R. C., Adler, L., Ames, M., Demler, O., Faraone, S., Hiripi, E., Howes, M. J., Jin, R., Secnik, K., Spencer, T., Ustun, T. B., & Walters, E. E. (2005). The World Health Organization Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS): A short screening scale for use in the general population. Psychological Medicine, 35(2), 245–256. The 6-question ASRS-V1.1 Screener is a subset of the 18-question Adult ASRS-V1.1 Symptom Checklist. © New York University and President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved. Free to use without formal permission, with citation and this copyright notice; the items, response options and scoring must not be altered.

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