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Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7)

The Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7) is a self-reported questionnaire for screening and severity measuring of generalized anxiety disorder. The tool guides therapists through the 7-item questionnaire, calculates the total score automatically, provides clinical interpretations, and stores historical results per patient.

What you can do

  • Administer the standard GAD-7 questionnaire directly within the platform.
  • Automatically calculate the patient's total score (0-21) in real-time.
  • View clinical interpretation based on the total score.
  • Save results against a specific patient for longitudinal tracking.
  • Visualize anxiety trends over time with integrated progress charts.

Getting Started

To use the tool, navigate to Features > Tools > Generalized Anxiety Disorder.

Starting an Assessment

  1. Select a Patient: Search for and select the patient you want to assess. Like other assessment tools, GAD-7 is linked to a specific patient to enable history tracking.
  2. Click Begin Assessment.

Assessment Panel

The assessment panel allows you to record scores for each GAD-7 question, review interpretations, and save the result.

Score Entry

  • Each of the 7 questions is presented with four answer options:
    • Not at all (0 points)
    • Several days (1 point)
    • More than half the days (2 points)
    • Nearly every day (3 points)
  • The Total Score updates automatically as answers are selected.
  • Click Save to store the assessment against the selected patient.

Interpretation

The interpretation panel shows the severity of anxiety based on the total score:

  • 0-4: Minimal anxiety
  • 5-9: Mild anxiety
  • 10-14: Moderate anxiety
  • 15-21: Severe anxiety

The relevant severity level for the current score is highlighted automatically.

Patient History

The tool displays a patient's historical GAD-7 performance to help track anxiety management progress.

Progress Chart

  • A line chart visualizes the patient's total GAD-7 scores over time.
  • Use the chart to identify trends or spikes in anxiety levels across different sessions.

Past Assessments

  • A list of all previous GAD-7 assessments for the selected patient is shown.
  • Click on any entry to load that assessment and review the individual question scores.
  • While viewing a historical record, the scores are read-only. Click New Assessment to start a fresh assessment for the same patient.