Practise explaining diagnostic criteria for anxiety disorders and applying them to psychological case evidence with CAIE Psychology AS questions and mark schemes.
Generalised anxiety disorder can be assessed using the GAD-7.
Outline how answers are scored on the GAD-7 scale.
Outline how answers are scored on the GAD-7 scale.
Syllabus 1.4.1 Generalised Anxiety Disorder assessment (GAD-7).
Award 2 marks for a detailed outline. Award 1 mark for a partial outline.
Definitive answer:
- the 'GAD score' is calculated by assigning scores of 0 (not at all), 1 (several days), 2 (more than half the days), and 3 nearly every day, to all 7 questions (hence GAD-7).
- a GAD-7 total score for the seven items ranges from 0 to 21 . Scores represent: 0-5 mild anxiety, 6-10 moderate anxiety, 11-15 moderately severe anxiety and 15-21 severe anxiety.
Example: the GAD-7 has a four-point scale (1 mark) ranging from 0 not at all to 3 nearly every day (2 marks).