GAD-7 Anxiety Screening — FHIR Questionnaire Template

Seven-question generalized anxiety screener with an automatic total score and severity band (minimal to severe).

Scoring

Each answer scores 0–3. The total (0–21) maps to minimal (0–4), mild (5–9), moderate (10–14) or severe (15–21) anxiety.

Questions

1. Feeling nervous, anxious or on edge
   • Not at all
   • Several days
   • More than half the days
   • Nearly every day
2. Not being able to stop or control worrying
   • Not at all
   • Several days
   • More than half the days
   • Nearly every day
3. Worrying too much about different things
   • Not at all
   • Several days
   • More than half the days
   • Nearly every day
4. Trouble relaxing
   • Not at all
   • Several days
   • More than half the days
   • Nearly every day
5. Being so restless that it is hard to sit still
   • Not at all
   • Several days
   • More than half the days
   • Nearly every day
6. Becoming easily annoyed or irritable
   • Not at all
   • Several days
   • More than half the days
   • Nearly every day
7. Feeling afraid as if something awful might happen
   • Not at all
   • Several days
   • More than half the days
   • Nearly every day

Calculated results

• GAD-7 total score
• Anxiety severity

Source and license

Source: Spitzer et al. 2006, Arch Intern Med 166:1092 (GAD-7). Codes: LOINC; form text as published at phqscreeners.com. (link)

License: Developed by Drs. Robert L. Spitzer, Janet B.W. Williams, Kurt Kroenke and colleagues, with an educational grant from Pfizer Inc. No permission required to reproduce, translate, display or distribute. (link)

Provided to save authoring effort, not as medical advice — confirm the scale and its cut-offs for your use case.

Use it

1. Download the FHIR Questionnaire JSON, or
2. open the Builder, choose + Add → From template…, search for “GAD-7 Anxiety Screening” and insert it. It arrives as one titled group with its calculations wired, and you can keep editing it.

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This material contains content from LOINC (loinc.org). LOINC is copyright © Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and the Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) Committee and is available at no cost under the LOINC license.