This measure looks at the worry, tension and avoidance that come with generalised anxiety, over the past 7 days. Answer 10 questions to see how severe anxiety has been for you this week, and what might help.
10 questions about the past 7 days, about two minutes. For adults (18 and over).
Each statement begins “During the past 7 days, I have…”. Choose how often it was true for you.
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About this scale
The Severity Measure for Generalized Anxiety Disorder is a 10-question check published by the American Psychiatric Association alongside the DSM-5, the manual clinicians use to describe mental health conditions. It asks about the thoughts, feelings, body sensations and behaviour that come with generalised anxiety: worry that is hard to switch off and spills across everyday life.
It is designed to measure how severe anxiety has been over the past week and to track it over time, for example across a course of counselling.
Reading your score
Each answer scores from 0 (never) to 4 (all of the time), so totals run from 0 to 40. The total divided by 10 and rounded to a whole number gives the severity: 0 none, 1 mild, 2 moderate, 3 severe, 4 extreme.
| Score | Result |
|---|---|
| 0–4 | Little or no generalised anxiety over the past 7 days. |
| 5–14 | Mild generalised anxiety over the past 7 days. |
| 15–24 | Moderate generalised anxiety over the past 7 days. |
| 25–34 | Severe generalised anxiety over the past 7 days. |
| 35–40 | Extreme generalised anxiety over the past 7 days. |
A score describes how things have been for you recently. It can’t diagnose anything on its own, but it is a useful way to notice change and a good starting point for a conversation with a counsellor or your GP.
Source: Craske, M., Wittchen, U., Bogels, S., Stein, M., Andrews, G., & Lebeu, R. Severity Measure for Generalized Anxiety Disorder—Adult. American Psychiatric Association, 2013.