Assessment reference library

Trauma · 10 items

Survey Doctor’s 10-item ACE questionnaire counts selected childhood-adversity categories. It is a hybrid form, not a diagnostic or individual risk tool.

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.

Substance Use · 4 items

The CAGE asks four yes-or-no questions about lifetime alcohol-related concerns. Scores run from 0 to 4; a result of 2 or higher supports fuller assessment.

Depression · 20 items

The CESD-R is a 20-item adult depression symptom measure. Learn how its raw total, collapsed screening total, and category algorithm differ.

Depression · 18 items

How the 18-item CUDOS produces a 0-to-64 symptom score, what its approximate ranges mean, and why function and safety need separate review.

Comprehensive · 21 items

The DASS-21 reports separate depression, anxiety, and stress symptom scores from 0 to 42. Survey Doctor doubles each seven-item domain before display.

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.

OCD · 20 items

Survey Doctor’s DOCS form reports four 0-to-20 dimensions and a 0-to-80 total, but it is a paraphrased legacy implementation.

Substance Use · 6 items

The six-item FTND describes cigarette-related nicotine dependence on a 0-to-10 scale. Survey Doctor assumes the person currently smokes cigarettes.

Anxiety · 2 items

Take the adult GAD-2 anxiety screen. Two questions cover the past two weeks and produce a 0 to 6 total; a score of 3 supports fuller assessment.

Anxiety · 7 items

The adult English GAD-7 asks seven questions over two weeks and produces a 0-to-21 anxiety symptom score. A separate difficulty response is not scored.

Depression · 15 items

The GDS-15 asks 15 yes-or-no questions about the past week and returns a 0-to-15 older-adult depression screening score. It does not diagnose depression.

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.

Personality · 50 items

Take the 50-item IPIP-50. Survey Doctor reports five separate raw Big Five trait scores, without an overall personality total or percentiles.

Personality · 120 items

Take the 120-item IPIP-NEO-120. Survey Doctor reports five raw Big Five domain scores and 30 facet scores, without an overall total or percentiles.

Pelvic Health · 8 items

The IPSS adds seven past-month urinary symptom ratings into a 0-to-35 score and records its 0-to-6 quality-of-life answer separately.

Pelvic Health · 2 items

The revised ISI multiplies urinary leakage frequency by amount. Its published 0-to-12 key contains nine attainable totals and four severity categories.

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.

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

Survey Doctor’s 24-question MAST uses a weighted 0-to-53 lifetime score, but its hybrid wording is not one established edition.

Pelvic Health · 13 items

The NIH-CPSI reports pain, urinary, and quality-of-life domain scores over one week. Its nine questions produce a 0-to-43 total.

OCD · 18 items

The OCI-R reports six 0-to-12 symptom subscales and a 0-to-72 total for distress during the past month.

PTSD · 6 items

The PC-PTSD-5 uses an unscored trauma gate followed, when endorsed, by five past-month symptom questions scored 0 to 5.

PTSD · 20 items

Take the 20-item PCL-5 for past-month PTSD symptoms. Survey Doctor reports a 0 to 80 total and four cluster sums but does not collect the official worst-event field.

PTSD · 17 items

The legacy DSM-IV PCL-C uses 17 past-month ratings to produce a 17-to-85 total. Survey Doctor does not report cluster or DSM-rule outputs.

Pelvic Health · 20 items

The PFDI-20 reports three pelvic floor symptom-bother domains from 0 to 100 and a 0-to-300 total. Survey Doctor uses a modified digital form.

Pelvic Health · 1 item

The PGI-I records one ordered 1-to-7 judgment of change. Survey Doctor’s generic condition wording is not one verified condition-specific form.

Physical Symptoms · 15 items

The PHQ-15 records how much 15 physical symptoms bothered an adult over four weeks. A complete score runs from 0 to 30; skipping the optional women-only item lowers the maximum to 28.

Depression · 2 items

The PHQ-2 is a two-question adult depression screen. Learn how it is scored, what a positive result means, and when to use the PHQ-9 next.

Anxiety & Depression · 4 items

The PHQ-4 is a four-question adult screen for anxiety and depression symptoms. Learn what its 0 to 12 total can and cannot show.

Depression · 8 items

The PHQ-8 asks about eight depression symptoms over two weeks and returns a 0-to-24 total. It omits PHQ-9 item 9 and collects no suicide or self-harm answer.

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.

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.

Stress · 10 items

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

Depression · 16 items

The QIDS-SR-16 turns 14 selected answers across 16 items into nine domain scores and a 0-to-27 depression symptom total.

Pelvic Health · 6 items

The six-item QUID reports separate 0-to-15 Stress and Urge scores, then records whether neither, one, or both screening thresholds are met.

Personality · 10 items

Survey Doctor uses a common 1-to-4 Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale adaptation, producing a 10-to-40 total with no validated universal cutoffs.

Personality · 10 items

The TIPI reports five Big Five trait averages from ten items. It has no overall score, validated universal bands, or better direction.

OCD · 10 items

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

OCD · 10 items

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