Assessment reference library

Cognitive screening · 6 items

What the brief 6CIT cognitive screen measures, how its weighted 0-to-28 score works, and what the common score-of-8 boundary means.

Trauma · 10 items

Answer ten questions about categories of childhood adversity. The score is an exposure count, not a diagnosis, severity rating, or personal risk prediction.

Cognitive screening · 21 items

What the 21-task ACE-III cognitive examination measures, how its five domains produce a 100-point score, and why a cutoff cannot diagnose dementia.

Cognitive change · 8 items

What the eight-item AD8 informant screen measures, how its 0-to-8 score works, and what a score of 2 or more means.

Medication-related movement symptoms · 12 items

What the 12-item clinician-rated AIMS measures, how its movement scores are summarized, and why a total alone does not diagnose tardive dyskinesia.

Manic symptoms · 5 items

What the five-item ASRM self-report measures, how its 0-to-20 score works, and why a score of 6 or more is a screening signal rather than a diagnosis.

Alcohol use · 10 items

What the 10-item AUDIT measures, how its 0-to-40 score works, and why WHO risk zones guide follow-up rather than diagnose an alcohol use disorder.

Alcohol use · 3 items

What AUDIT-C measures, how its 0-to-12 total works, and why a positive cutoff depends on the exact form and screening policy.

Behavioral activation · 25 items

What the 25-item BADS measures, how its total and four process scores work, and why it is not a depression diagnosis or severity test.

Anxiety · 21 items

What the 21-item Beck Anxiety Inventory measures, how its 0-to-63 total and common score bands work, and why physical symptoms need context.

Basic activities of daily living · 10 items

What the 10-item Barthel Index measures, how the original 0-to-100 score works, and why the version must be named when interpreting results.

Depression · 21 items

What the 21-item BDI-II measures, how its 0-to-63 total and four symptom ranges work, and why one score cannot diagnose depression.

Sleep apnea risk · 10 items

What the Berlin Questionnaire measures, how its three-category algorithm works, and why a high-risk result does not diagnose obstructive sleep apnea.

Grief · 5 items

What the five-item Brief Grief Questionnaire measures, how its 0-to-10 score works, and why different follow-up thresholds exist.

Hopelessness · 20 items

What the 20-item Beck Hopelessness Scale measures, how its 0-to-20 total and interpretation ranges work, and why it is not a suicide-risk test.

Pain severity and interference

What the Brief Pain Inventory Short Form measures, how its pain severity and interference scores work, and why it has no universal severity bands.

Broad psychiatric symptoms · 18 items

What the common 18-item clinician-rated BPRS measures, how its two scoring conventions work, and why raw totals from different versions cannot be compared.

Coping · 28 items

What the 28-item Brief COPE measures, how its 14 two-item subscales work, and why it has no standard overall coping score.

Resilience · 6 items

What the six-item Brief Resilience Scale measures, how its 1-to-5 average is calculated, and why it has no universal score bands.

Substance Use · 4 items

Take the 4-item CAGE questionnaire about lifetime alcohol-related concerns. Scores range from 0 to 4; the result is a screen, not a diagnosis.

Substance use · 4 items

What the four-item CAGE-AID screens for, how its 0-to-4 score works, and why one-point and two-point decision rules serve different purposes.

PTSD assessment · 30 items

What the CAPS-5 clinical interview assesses, how its 20 symptom ratings produce a 0-to-80 severity total, and how diagnosis differs from score.

Resilience · 25 items

What the 25-item Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale measures, how its 0-to-100 total works, and why it has no universal cutoffs.

Depression · 20 items

What the original 20-item CES-D measures, how its 0-to-60 score is calculated, and what the common score-of-16 boundary means.

Depression · 20 items

Take the CESD-R assessment. Free 20-item depression screening tool for population research and clinical practice. Evidence-based DSM-aligned measure.

Global clinical status · 3 items

What the clinician-rated CGI Severity, Improvement, and Efficacy Index components mean, how they are scored, and why they do not form one total.

Depression · 18 items

What the 18-item CUDOS measures, how its 0-to-72 total and approximate score bands work, and why safety responses need separate review.

Anxiety · 20 items

What the 20-item CUXOS measures, how its 0-to-80 total and approximate score bands work, and why physical symptoms need context.

Comprehensive · 21 items

Technical reference for the DASS-21, including its three doubled domain scores and Survey Doctor release limitations.

Emotional distress · 42 items

What the DASS-42 measures, how its three 0-to-42 scale scores work, and why DASS-21 scores use a different calculation.

Substance use · 10 items

What the 10-item DAST measures, how its 0-to-10 score works, and why the result needs follow-up rather than a diagnosis.

Emotion regulation · 16 items

What the 16-item DERS-16 measures, how its 16-to-80 total works, and why the result is not a diagnostic or severity category.

Emotion regulation · 18 items

What the Victor and Klonsky 18-item DERS measures, how its total and six subscales work, and why it has no universal severity bands.

OCD · 20 items

Legacy-form notice for Survey Doctor DOCS records. The current prompts and anchors are paraphrased and should not guide clinical decisions.

Depression · 8 items

How the 8-item DSM-5-TR Level 2 Depression adult measure produces a PROMIS T-score, how missing responses are handled, and what its bands mean.

Substance use · 11 items

What the 11-item DUDIT measures, how its 0-to-44 total is calculated, and why its published cutoffs need population context.

Eating disorders · 26 items

What the 26-item EAT-26 screens for, how its 0-to-78 total works, and why referral can be appropriate even below a score of 20.

Health status and quality of life · 6 items

What the EQ-5D-5L measures, how its health-state profile, value-set index, and EQ VAS differ, and why the results are not diagnostic.

Daytime sleepiness · 8 items

What the eight-item Epworth Sleepiness Scale measures, how its 0-to-24 score is calculated, and what its five score ranges mean.

Family functioning · 5 items

What the five-item Family APGAR measures, how its 0-to-10 total works, and why the original family-function labels need context.

Mindfulness · 39 items

What the standard 39-item FFMQ measures, how its five facet scores work, and why meditation experience changes how some results should be read.

Mental wellbeing · 8 items

What the eight-item Flourishing Scale measures, how its 8-to-56 total works, and why the score has no universal clinical bands.

Substance Use · 6 items

Take the 6-item FTND for current cigarette smokers. The score describes nicotine dependence from very low to very high but does not select treatment.

Anxiety · 2 items

Take the GAD-2 assessment. Ultra-brief 2-item anxiety screening for rapid identification of individuals needing further evaluation. Evidence-based anxiety detection.

Anxiety · 7 items

Take the adult English GAD-7 anxiety screen. Seven questions cover symptoms from the past two weeks and produce a score from 0 to 21.

Global mental health functioning · 1 item

What the historical Global Assessment of Functioning measures, how its 1-to-100 rating works, and why DSM-5 stopped using it.

Depression · 15 items

Learn about the 15-item GDS-15 screening questionnaire for depressive symptoms in older adults.

Depression · 30 items

What the original 30-item Geriatric Depression Scale measures, how its 0-to-30 score works, and why the result is not a diagnosis.

Anxiety · 14 items

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

Depression · 17 items

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.

Grief · 19 items

What the 19-item Inventory of Complicated Grief measures, how its 0-to-76 total works, and why 25 and 30 are not universal cutoffs.

Trauma-related distress · 22 items

What the 22-item IES-R measures, how mean and 0-to-88 sum scores are calculated, and why published PTSD cutoffs are not universal.

Personality · 50 items

Take the IPIP-50 personality assessment. It reports five separate Big Five trait scores from a public domain 50-item questionnaire.

Personality · 120 items

Take the public domain IPIP-NEO-120. It reports five Big Five domains and, for native responses, 30 narrower facet scores.

Pelvic Health · 8 items

Learn how the IPSS symptom score works, why its quality-of-life response stays separate, and which edition and permission questions remain open.

Cognitive change · 16 items

What the 16-item Short IQCODE measures, how its 1-to-5 average is calculated, and why published cutoffs are not severity bands.

Empathy · 28 items

What the 28-item Interpersonal Reactivity Index measures, how its four 0-to-28 subscale scores work, and why they should stay separate.

Insomnia · 7 items

What the seven-item Insomnia Severity Index measures, how its 0-to-28 score is calculated, and how to interpret the usual score ranges.

Pelvic Health · 2 items

Learn how the revised Sandvik Index combines urinary leakage frequency and amount, including current form and branching limitations.

Psychological distress · 10 items

What the K10 measures, why totals can run from 0 to 40 or 10 to 50, and how official reporting bands differ.

Psychological distress · 6 items

What the K6 measures, how its two scoring systems work, and why a score of 13 or more is not a diagnosis.

Instrumental activities of daily living · 8 items

What the eight-domain Lawton-Brody IADL Scale measures, how its historical scoring differs from modern adaptations, and how to read the result.

Trauma exposure · 17 items

What the 17-event LEC-5 records, how its standard, extended, and interview formats differ, and why it has no total score.

Social anxiety · 24 items

What the 24-situation Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale measures, how its 0-to-144 total is calculated, and how clinician and self-report versions differ.

Mindfulness · 15 items

What the 15-item MAAS measures, how its 1-to-6 mean score works, and why it covers present-moment attention rather than all of mindfulness.

Depression · 10 items

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.

Substance Use · 24 items

Important verification notice for Survey Doctor’s current 24-item MAST implementation, including its lifetime scope and unresolved edition, scoring, and permission questions.

Bipolar disorder screening · 15 items

What the Mood Disorder Questionnaire screens for, how its three-part positive-screen rule works, and why it is not a 0-to-15 severity scale.

Cognitive screening · 11 items

What the original 11-category MMSE cognitive screen measures, how its 30-point score works, and why one cutoff cannot diagnose dementia.

Cognitive screening · 12 items

What the current full MoCA 8.1 measures, how its 30-point score and education adjustment work, and why 26 is not a universal cutoff.

Social support · 12 items

What the 12-item MSPSS measures, how its family, friends, significant-other, and total mean scores work, and how to interpret them.

Pelvic Health · 13 items

Learn what the NIH-CPSI measures, how its domain scores work, and which interpretation and electronic-use questions remain unresolved.

OCD · 18 items

The OCI-R is an 18-item questionnaire that screens for distress linked to obsessive-compulsive symptoms across six subscales.

Schizophrenia symptoms · 30 items

What the standard 30-item clinician-rated PANSS measures, how its three scale scores and total work, and why the score is not a diagnosis.

PTSD · 6 items

Take the brief PC-PTSD-5. A trauma-exposure gate leads to five past-month symptom questions, scored from 0 to 5.

PTSD · 20 items

Take the 20-item PCL-5 to record past-month PTSD symptoms. Survey Doctor reports a 0 to 80 total and four symptom-cluster sums.

PTSD · 17 items

The PCL-C is a legacy 17-item DSM-IV questionnaire. Survey Doctor reports its 17 to 85 total, not cluster or diagnostic-rule outputs.

Pain-related thinking · 13 items

What the 13-item Pain Catastrophizing Scale measures, how its 0-to-52 total and three subscales work, and why the score is not a pain diagnosis.

Panic symptoms · 7 items

What the seven-item clinician-rated Panic Disorder Severity Scale measures, why scores appear as either a 0-to-4 average or 0-to-28 sum, and how to interpret them.

Pediatric quality of life · 23 items

What the 23-item PedsQL 4.0 forms for ages 5 to 18 measure, how their 0-to-100 scores work, and why child and parent reports stay separate.

Pelvic Health · 20 items

Learn how the PFDI-20 summarizes pelvic floor symptom bother and which administration, scoring, and permission issues remain unresolved.

Pelvic Health · 1 item

Learn what one PGI-I response records, why it is ordinal, and which condition, form, anchors, and electronic implementation details remain unresolved.

Physical Symptoms · 15 items

The PHQ-15 records how much 15 physical symptoms bothered you during the past four weeks. Learn how its 0-to-30 total works and how Survey Doctor handles the women-only item.

Depression · 2 items

Take the PHQ-2 assessment. Ultra-brief 2-item depression screening for rapid identification of individuals needing further evaluation. Evidence-based first-step screen.

Anxiety & Depression · 4 items

Take the PHQ-4 assessment. Ultra-brief 4-item screening combining anxiety and depression assessment. Evidence-based dual screening tool.

Depression · 8 items

Learn about the PHQ-8, an 8-item adult depression screening questionnaire that does not assess suicide or self-harm.

Depression · 9 items

Take the adult English PHQ-9 depression screen. Nine questions cover symptoms from the past two weeks and produce a score from 0 to 27.

Multi-domain symptoms

How PHQ-SADS combines the PHQ-15, GAD-7, and PHQ-9, why the three scores stay separate, and what each result can show.

Global physical and mental health · 10 items

What the 10-item adult PROMIS Global Health v1.2 measures, how its two T-scores work, and why it does not produce one 10-item total.

Sleep · 8 items

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.

Sleep · 8 items

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.

Multi-domain health · 29 items

What the adult PROMIS-29 Profile v2.1 measures, how its seven T-scores and pain rating work, and why there is no 29-item total.

Sleep quality · 19 items

What the 19-item Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index measures, how its seven components produce a 0-to-21 global score, and what a score above 5 means.

Stress · 10 items

What the PSS-10 measures, how its total is calculated, and why the score has no universal clinical bands.

Worry · 16 items

What the 16-item Penn State Worry Questionnaire measures, how its 16-to-80 total is calculated, and why it has no universal cutoff.

Posttraumatic growth · 21 items

What the 21-item Posttraumatic Growth Inventory measures, how its 0-to-105 total and five domain scores work, and what the result cannot prove.

Depression · 16 items

Learn how Survey Doctor scores the 16-item QIDS-SR depression symptom questionnaire, including its nine-domain 0-27 total and important legacy-data limits.

Pelvic Health · 6 items

Take the six-item QUID to see whether stress and urge urinary symptom scores meet their validated screening cutoffs.

Relationship satisfaction · 7 items

What the seven-item Relationship Assessment Scale measures, how its 1-to-5 mean is calculated, and the limits of interpreting it.

Personality · 10 items

Take the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale using a common four-point Likert adaptation. Survey Doctor reports a 10 to 40 self-esteem score.

Emotion regulation · 21 items

What the 21-item S-DERS measures in the present moment, how its total and four subscales work, and why context is central to interpretation.

Eating disorders · 5 items

What the five-question SCOFF screens for, how its 0-to-5 total works, and why a score of 2 supports assessment rather than a diagnosis.

Functional impairment · 5 items

What the five-rating Sheehan Disability Scale measures, how its 0-to-30 total and two productivity counts work, and how to interpret them.

Physical and mental health status · 12 items

What the 12-item SF-12v2 Health Survey measures, how its physical and mental component scores work, and why they are not simple totals.

Health status and quality of life · 36 items

What the 36-item SF-36v2 Health Survey measures, how its eight domain and two component scores work, and why it has no overall total.

Pain quality · 17 items

What the 1987 Short-Form McGill Pain Questionnaire measures, how its sensory and affective scores work, and why it has no diagnostic cutoff.

Pain quality · 22 items

What the 22-item SF-MPQ-2 measures, how its four 0-to-10 subscale means work, and why its pain profile cannot diagnose a pain mechanism.

Social anxiety · 20 items

What the 20-item Social Interaction Anxiety Scale measures, how its 0-to-80 total is calculated, and how it differs from the SPS and LSAS.

Cognitive screening · 11 items

What the 11-question SLUMS cognitive screen measures, how its 30-point score works, and how education changes its interpretation bands.

Social and occupational functioning · 1 item

What SOFAS measures, how its 1-to-100 clinician rating works, and how it differs from the symptom-linked GAF.

Social anxiety · 20 items

What the 20-item Social Phobia Scale measures, how its 0-to-80 total is calculated, and how it differs from the SIAS and LSAS.

Sleep apnea risk · 8 items

What the eight-factor STOP-Bang screen measures, how its 0-to-8 score and additional high-risk rule work, and what each risk group means.

Mental wellbeing · 7 items

What the seven-item SWEMWBS measures, why its raw 7-to-35 total needs conversion, and how to interpret the metric score.

Life satisfaction · 5 items

What the five-item Satisfaction with Life Scale measures, how its 5-to-35 total works, and what the developer score bands mean.

Empathy · 16 items

What the 16-item Toronto Empathy Questionnaire measures, how its 0-to-64 total is calculated, and why it has no diagnostic bands.

Personality · 10 items

Take the TIPI personality questionnaire. It gives five brief Big Five trait estimates from ten items, with two items per trait.

PTSD screening · 10 items

What the 10-item Trauma Screening Questionnaire measures, how its 0-to-10 count is calculated, and what a positive screen means.

Loneliness · 3 items

What the UCLA-3 loneliness scale measures, how its 3-to-9 total is calculated, and why it has no universal diagnostic cutoff.

Mental wellbeing · 14 items

What the 14-item WEMWBS measures, how its 14-to-70 total works, and why population context matters when interpreting it.

Wellbeing · 5 items

What the five-item WHO-5 measures, how its 0-to-25 raw score converts to a percentage, and what a score below 13 means.

Functioning and disability · 12 items

What the 12-item WHODAS 2.0 measures, how its 0-to-48 simple score and 0-to-100 complex score differ, and why neither is a diagnosis.

Quality of life · 26 items

What the 26-item WHOQOL-BREF measures, how its four domain scores work, and why it does not produce one overall quality-of-life total.

Manic symptoms · 11 items

What the 11-item clinician-rated YMRS measures, how its 0-to-60 total works, and why thresholds do not diagnose a manic episode.

Caregiver burden · 12 items

What the 12-item Zarit Burden Interview short form measures, how its 0-to-48 total works, and why it has no universal burden bands.