10.61. Generalized Anxiety Disorder Assessment (GAD-7)¶

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[FROM-LP] Recommended by FROM-LP, as part of its condition-specific suggestions. See FROM-LP.

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[FROM-Perinatal] Recommended by FROM-Perinatal, as part of the “common mental health disorders” set. See FROM-Perinatal.

10.61.1. History and guide¶

A score of ≥10 identifies generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) with sensitivity 89%, specificity 82% (Spitzer et al. 2006, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16717171).

A score of ≥10 identifies panic disorder with sensitivity 74%, specificity 81% (Kroenke et al. 2010, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20633738).

A score of ≥10 identifies social anxiety with sensitivity 72%, specificity 80% (Kroenke et al. 2010).

A score of ≥10 identifies post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with sensitivity 66%, specificity 81% (Kroenke et al. 2010).

Original source is at www.phqscreeners.com.

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“All PHQ, GAD-7 screeners and translations are downloadable from this website and no permission is required to reproduce, translate, display or distribute them. Relevant articles and a bibliography are also freely available.” (http://www.phqscreeners.com/overview.aspx, accessed 2012-09-04.)
“All of the measures included in Table 1 are in the public domain. No permission is required to reproduce, translate, display or distribute.” (http://www.phqscreeners.com/instructions/instructions.pdf, accessed 2012-09-04.)

CamCOPS does not suffer and has not suffered from the GAD-7 reproduction error noted by Zorowitz et al. (2021), Lancet Psychiatry 8: 180, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33610220/, https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(21)00001-8. (The error, noted in a large number of publications, was to use “not at all sure” as the “zero” or lowest-value response, which is incorrect, rather than the correct option of “not at all”.) Checked on 2022-01-05.