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Mental health surveys

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

The full assessment library also covers assessments Survey Doctor does not offer.

Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Questionnaire · Trauma

Available

Ten yes-or-no questions about abuse, neglect, and household challenges before age 18. The score counts how many of the ten categories you answered yes to, from 0 to 10. It is not a diagnosis or a prediction of your health.

CAGE Alcohol Screening Questionnaire · Substance Use

Not available

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

Available

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

For clinics

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

Not available

A 20-item self-report measure of obsessive-compulsive symptom severity across four dimensions: contamination, responsibility for harm, unacceptable thoughts, and symmetry.

Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence (FTND) · Substance Use

Available

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

Available

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

Available

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

Available

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

For clinics

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

Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D) · Depression

For clinics

The HAM-D is a clinician-administered 17-item rating of depression severity. Survey Doctor uses the HDRS-17 form hosted by the University of Florida, scored 0 to 52.

IPIP-50 Big Five Personality Test · Personality

Available

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

Available

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

For clinics

An 8-question form for lower urinary tract symptoms in men. The seven AUA Symptom Index questions form a 0-35 symptom score, and an eighth question records a separate 0-6 quality-of-life response.

Incontinence Severity Index (ISI) · Pelvic Health

Available

Two questions about how often urine leaks and how much is lost each time. The revised Sandvik index multiplies the two answers to grade leakage severity.

Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) · Depression

For clinics

The Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) is a 10-item clinician rating of depressive symptoms. A trained rater scores each item from 0 to 6 after a clinical interview, and the ten ratings add to a total from 0 to 60.

Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (MAST) · Substance Use

Available

A 24-question yes-or-no alcohol screening questionnaire with weighted answers. Most questions ask whether a drinking-related experience has ever happened.

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

For clinics

A nine-question index, presented as 13 response rows, that measures symptoms in men with chronic prostatitis or chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) across three domains: pain, urinary symptoms, and quality-of-life impact.

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

Available

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

Available

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

Available

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

Available

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

Available

Twenty questions about pelvic floor symptoms during the last 3 months and how much each one bothers you. Results are three 0-to-100 scores for prolapse, colorectal-anal, and urinary distress and a 0-to-300 total.

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

Available

One question about how your urinary tract condition is now compared with before treatment began. The answer is one of seven ordered categories from very much better to very much worse.

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

Available

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

Available

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

Available

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

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

Available

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

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

Available

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

PROMIS Sleep Disturbance (PROMIS SD-SF8a) · Sleep

Not available

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

Not available

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) (QIDS-SR16) · Depression

Available

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

Available

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

Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSE) · Personality

Available

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

Available

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

Not available

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

Not available

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