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Anxiety self-check (GAD-7)

Nervousness, worry and trouble relaxing over the last two weeks. Seven items, two minutes.

7 items · About 2 min

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How to answerOver the last 2 weeks, how often have you been bothered by the following problems?

  1. Feeling nervous, anxious, or on edge
  2. Not being able to stop or control worrying
  3. Worrying too much about different things
  4. Trouble relaxing
  5. Being so restless that it is hard to sit still
  6. Becoming easily annoyed or irritable
  7. Feeling afraid, as if something awful might happen
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About this scale

The GAD-7 screens for generalized anxiety and also flags panic and social anxiety reasonably well. It reflects the last two weeks and changes with your circumstances; it is not a fixed label.

SourceSpitzer, R. L., Kroenke, K., Williams, J. B. W., & Löwe, B. (2006). A brief measure for assessing generalized anxiety disorder: the GAD-7. Archives of Internal Medicine, 166(10), 1092–1097. No permission required to reproduce or translate.

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