Mental health surveys

Browse mental health assessment references. Each page explains the assessment's intended use, source, known limits, and availability.

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Adverse Childhood Experience Questionnaire for Adults (ACE) · Trauma

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A 10-item hybrid questionnaire that counts selected categories of adversity before age 18. It does not match one established ACE form or support individual risk prediction.

CAGE Alcohol Screening Questionnaire · Substance Use

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A 4-item alcohol screening questionnaire about lifetime experiences related to drinking. The acronym CAGE represents Cut down, Annoyed, Guilty, and Eye-opener.

Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale - Revised (CESD-R) · Depression

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A 20-item self-report measure designed to assess depressive symptoms in the general population, with items reflecting DSM-IV criteria for major depression.

Depression Anxiety Stress Scales - 21 (DASS-21) · Comprehensive

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A 21-item self-report questionnaire designed to measure the severity of depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms over the past week.

Dimensional Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (DOCS) · OCD

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Survey Doctor's current 20-prompt OCD questionnaire is a paraphrased legacy implementation. It is not an exact reproduction of the Dimensional Obsessive-Compulsive Scale.

Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence (FTND) · Substance Use

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A 6-item questionnaire that describes nicotine dependence among people who currently smoke cigarettes. It asks about current smoking patterns and produces a score from 0 to 10.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder 2-item (GAD-2) · Anxiety

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A very brief and easy to perform initial screening tool for generalized anxiety disorder consisting of the first 2 items of the GAD-7.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item (GAD-7) · Anxiety

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A 7-item adult questionnaire that screens for generalized anxiety symptoms and describes their severity over the past 2 weeks.

Geriatric Depression Scale - 15 (GDS-15) · Depression

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A 15-item screening tool specifically designed to identify depression in older adults, using a simple yes/no format.

Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A) · Anxiety

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A 14-item clinician-rated scale to assess the severity of anxiety symptoms.

Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D) · Depression

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The Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D) is a clinician-administered assessment that evaluates the severity of depression. Originally developed with 17 items, it focuses on cognitive and physical symptoms of depression and is widely used in clinical practice and research.

IPIP-50 Big Five Personality Test · Personality

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A 50-item public domain measure of the Big Five personality traits: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism (OCEAN).

IPIP-NEO-120 Big Five Personality Test · Personality

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A comprehensive 120-item measure of the Big Five personality domains and their 30 facets, providing detailed personality profiling based on the Five-Factor Model.

International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS) · Pelvic Health

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An 8-item implementation that summarizes lower urinary tract symptoms in men. Seven questions form a symptom score, and one records a separate quality-of-life response.

Incontinence Severity Index (ISI) · Pelvic Health

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A 2-item implementation based on the revised Sandvik Incontinence Severity Index. It multiplies reported leakage frequency by reported amount.

Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) · Depression

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The Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) is a 10-item clinician-administered depression rating. Survey Doctor's current digital definition has known wording and response-anchor defects and should not guide clinical interpretation.

Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (MAST) · Substance Use

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A 24-question weighted lifetime alcohol screen currently presented under the MAST name. Source review has not matched this complete implementation to one established MAST edition, so its raw total should not be used as a diagnosis or treatment rule.

NIH Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index (NIH-CPSI) · Pelvic Health

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A 13-item questionnaire measuring symptom severity in men with chronic prostatitis or chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) across three domains: pain, urinary symptoms, and impact on quality of life.

Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory-Revised (OCI-R) · OCD

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An 18-item self-report measure of obsessive-compulsive symptoms across six subscales: Hoarding, Checking, Ordering, Neutralizing, Washing, and Obsessing.

Primary Care PTSD Screen for DSM-5 (PC-PTSD-5) · PTSD

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A trauma-exposure gate followed, when endorsed, by five past-month yes-or-no PTSD symptom screening questions. The 0-to-5 total is not a diagnosis or severity scale.

PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5) · PTSD

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A 20-item self-report questionnaire covering the 20 DSM-5 PTSD symptoms over the past month. Survey Doctor reports a total and four cluster sums, not a diagnosis or DSM-rule result.

PTSD Checklist - Civilian Version (PCL-C) · PTSD

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A legacy 17-item DSM-IV self-report questionnaire. Survey Doctor reports its 17-to-85 total but does not calculate the declared clusters or DSM symptom-rule result.

Pelvic Floor Distress Inventory - 20 (PFDI-20) · Pelvic Health

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A 20-item questionnaire measuring the degree of bother caused by pelvic floor symptoms across three domains: pelvic organ prolapse, colorectal-anal function, and urinary function.

Patient Global Impression of Improvement (PGI-I) · Pelvic Health

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A single-item rating of perceived change since treatment began. This implementation uses a generic condition stem, but its exact source form and intended condition have not been established.

Patient Health Questionnaire 15-item Somatic Symptom Scale (PHQ-15) · Physical Symptoms

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A 15-item questionnaire about how bothersome common physical symptoms were during the past four weeks. The total describes symptom burden but does not identify a cause or diagnose a disorder.

Patient Health Questionnaire-2 (PHQ-2) · Depression

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A 2-item ultra-brief screening tool for depression. The PHQ-2 inquires about the frequency of depressed mood and anhedonia over the past two weeks.

Patient Health Questionnaire-4 (PHQ-4) · Anxiety & Depression

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A 4-item ultra-brief screening tool for both anxiety and depression.

Patient Health Questionnaire-8 (PHQ-8) · Depression

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An 8-item depression screening tool that excludes the suicidality question from PHQ-9.

Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) · Depression

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A 9-item adult depression screening questionnaire that describes symptom severity over the past 2 weeks.

PROMIS Sleep Disturbance (PROMIS SD-SF8a) · Sleep

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An 8-item measure of sleep quality, sleep depth, and restoration associated with sleep. Assesses perceptions of nighttime sleep experience over the past 7 days. Part of the NIH PROMIS measurement system.

PROMIS Sleep-Related Impairment (PROMIS SRI-SF8a) · Sleep

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An 8-item measure of alertness, sleepiness, tiredness, and functional impairments associated with sleep problems during waking hours. Part of the NIH PROMIS measurement system.

Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology (QIDS-SR-16) · Depression

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A 16-item self-report measure of depressive symptom severity covering the nine DSM symptom domains over the past seven days. Total score ranges from 0 to 27.

Questionnaire for Urinary Incontinence Diagnosis (QUID) · Pelvic Health

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A 6-item screening questionnaire that summarizes whether stress and urge symptom scores meet their validated cutoffs.

Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSE) · Personality

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A 10-item global self-esteem questionnaire. Survey Doctor uses a common 1-to-4 Likert adaptation with totals from 10 to 40, not Rosenberg's original Guttman scoring method.

Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI) · Personality

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A brief 10-item measure of the Big Five personality dimensions: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Openness to Experience.

Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) · OCD

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A clinician-rated scale designed to measure the severity and type of symptoms in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale - Second Edition (Y-BOCS-II) · OCD

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A clinician-administered second-edition scale for recording obsessive-compulsive symptoms and rating their severity.