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Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale

Aka: Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale, GAD-7, GAD-2
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  1. Indication
    1. Generalized Anxiety Disorder Screening
    2. Panic Disorder Screening
  2. Scoring: Answers
    1. Not at all: 0
    2. Several days: 1
    3. More than half the days: 2
    4. Nearly every day: 3
  3. Questions: Over the past 2 weeks, how often have you been bothered by the following problems
    1. Feeling nervous, anxious or on edge
    2. Being unable to stop or control worrying
    3. Worrying too much about different things
    4. Having 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
  4. Interpretation: GAD-2
    1. First 2 questions above are each scored with one of 4 answers above
    2. Total score >3 suggests Anxiety Disorder or Panic Disorder
  5. Interpretation: GAD-7
    1. All 7 questions above are each scored with one of 4 answers above
    2. Total score >8 suggests Anxiety Disorder or Panic Disorder
  6. References
    1. Spitzer (2006) Arch Intern Med 166(10): 1092-7

Clinical anxiety scale (C0451073)

Concepts Intellectual Product (T170)
SnomedCT 273366006
English Clinical anxiety scale, Clinical anxiety scale (assessment scale)
Spanish escala clínica de ansiedad (escala de evaluación), escala clínica de ansiedad
Sources
Derived from the NIH UMLS (Unified Medical Language System)


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