GAD-7 Anxiety Test
Seven questions about worry, restlessness and irritability over the past two weeks, one at a time, scored here in your browser. A score points toward a conversation, not a diagnosis. Nothing you enter is stored or sent anywhere.
Take the GAD-7
This online version is intended for adults. Children and teenagers should be assessed using age-appropriate tools and a developmentally appropriate clinical evaluation.
Over the last two weeks, how often have you been bothered by the following?
Your answers are scored in this browser. Nothing is submitted and nothing is stored. With JavaScript switched off the questions still work; the total has to be added up by hand.
The GAD-7 does not ask about self-harm. If answering it brought difficult thoughts to the surface anyway, that is worth acting on now.
Understanding Your Score
Scores range from 0 to 21. A score of 10 or higher is a commonly used threshold for further assessment, but a lower score does not rule out an anxiety disorder.
What a Score Can Tell You
That your symptoms fit a recognized pattern, and roughly how much they are affecting you. Worth bringing to an appointment.
What It Cannot
Whether you have an anxiety disorder. Too much caffeine, an overactive thyroid, poor sleep and depression produce the same scores. Telling them apart is what an evaluation is for.
How Accurate Is It?
Built with 2,740 patients in 15 U.S. clinics, 965 of them then interviewed. A score of 10 or above identified 89 in 100 people with the disorder and cleared 82 in 100 without it.
GAD-7 developed by Drs. Robert L. Spitzer, Janet B. W. Williams, Kurt Kroenke and colleagues.
More Common Than It Feels
An estimated 2.7% of U.S. adults had generalized anxiety disorder in the past year, and 5.7% will have it at some point in their lives, often after years of worry nobody named. Anxiety responds well to treatment, and the first step is usually the one you are taking now.
Common Questions
Can I use this for my child or teenager?
This online version is intended for adults. Children and teenagers should be assessed using age-appropriate tools and a developmentally appropriate clinical evaluation. A parent or guardian can request an evaluation for a child or teen.
Does it cover panic attacks or social anxiety?
Not directly. It measures general worry over two weeks. Panic, social anxiety and phobias can score low here and still be worth treating, so describe them at the appointment even if your total is small.
What should I bring to the appointment?
Bring your total and examples of when the worry happens, what it is about, how long it has been present and how it affects sleep, school, work or relationships.
Other Screening Tools
The same instruments clinicians use. Two minutes each.
Turn a Score Into a Plan
Whether your result surprised you or confirmed what you suspected, the next step is the same. Bring your score to an evaluation, and we’ll work out what’s behind it.