Self-check questionnaires
Four published screening instruments, scored in your browser as you answer them. They are the same measures used in the clinic, which means the score you get here is one a clinician can read. Your answers stay on this device.
If you are in crisis right now
A questionnaire is the wrong tool for an emergency. If you are thinking about ending your life, or you are frightened of what you might do, call or text 988 at any hour of any day. If someone is in immediate danger, call 911.
These questionnaires are not medical advice, not a diagnosis, and not a substitute for being seen by a clinician. They measure symptoms over a fixed window and nothing else. Whatever score you get, what it means is decided in an appointment.
What these four instruments are
Every one of them is published, free to reproduce, and in daily use in psychiatry and primary care. None of them was written by this practice, and that is the point: a score means something because thousands of other people have answered the same words.
- PHQ-2 and PHQ-9. Depression. Two questions that open onto seven more if the first two point that way. Nine items in total, scored 0 to 27.
- GAD-7. Generalised anxiety. Seven items, scored 0 to 21.
- ASRS v1.1, Part A. Adult ADHD. Six items, and the only one here that is not a simple total: each question has its own cut point and four crossings is the positive screen. It is designed for adults and does not assess children.
- AUDIT-C. Alcohol use. Three questions about quantity and frequency, scored 0 to 12.
The PHQ-9 and the GAD-7 are the two measures repeated at appointments here, which is how progress becomes something you can see on paper. More on that in how care works.
What a score cannot tell you
A screening questionnaire measures how much of something you have been carrying over a fixed window. That is genuinely useful and it is all it does. It cannot separate depression from grief, from a thyroid problem, from a medication you started in April, from sleep apnoea, or from a fortnight that was simply terrible. Separating those is the work of an evaluation, and it is why a high score is a reason to book and never a conclusion.
A low score is not a clearance either. These instruments miss people. They miss adults with ADHD who have built good workarounds, they miss anxiety that shows up mainly in the body, and they will always miss whatever you did not feel able to answer honestly on a web page. If something is wrong and the number says otherwise, trust yourself and book anyway.
Nothing here is a diagnosis, and nobody at this practice sees what you answer.
Where your answers go
Nowhere. The scoring happens inside this page. There is no form submission, no message to the practice, no account, and nothing written to your browser's storage, so closing the tab is all it takes to clear what you entered. If you want a clinician to see any of it, the way to do that is to bring the result to an appointment or say the number out loud in one.
If you are using a shared or borrowed device, close the tab when you are done. That is the whole of the advice.
A score is a starting point
What it is worth is decided in a conversation. The first appointment is that conversation, and you can arrive with a number or without one.
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