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.