Generalized Anxiety Disorder – 7 (GAD-7)

Full name of scale

Generalized Anxiety Disorder – 7

Languages

Original language: English

It has been translated into many languages. Translation can be found at: www.phqscreeners.com

French version reference

Micoulaud-Franchi, J. A., Lagarde, S., Barkate, G., Dufournet, B., Besancon, C., Trébuchon-Da Fonseca, A., ... & McGonigal, A. (2016). Rapid detection of generalized anxiety disorder and major depression in epilepsy: validation of the GAD-7 as a complementary tool to the NDDI-E in a French sample. Epilepsy & Behavior, 57, 211-216.

https://medfam.umontreal.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/GAD-7-fran%C3%A7ais.pdf

Rater

Patient-rated

Training

No training required

Utility

It is a 7-item measure used for screening for general anxiety disorder and assessing its severity in clinical practice and research.

Time to complete

5 minutes

Cost/license

Open access. Tool can be found at: www.phqscreeners.com

Spitzer, R. L., Kroenke, K., Williams, J. B., & Löwe, B. (2006). A brief measure for assessing generalized anxiety disorder: The GAD-7. Archives of Internal Medicine, 166(10), 1092–1097. Follow this link for the article.

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