Validation and Standardization of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Screener (GAD-7) in the General Population

By B. Löwe, O. Decker, S. Müller, Elmar Brähler, D. Schellberg, Wolfgang Herzog, P. Herzberg. Medical Care, 2008

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Students under lockdown: Comparisons of students’ social networks and mental health before and during the COVID-19 crisis in Switzerland (2020, methodology): “Anxiety was measured by the German version of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 scale [25, 26].”
Impact on mental health and perceptions of psychological care among medical and nursing staff in Wuhan during the 2019 novel coronavirus disease outbreak: A cross-sectional study (2020, positive): “The total scores are categorized as follows: minimal/no anxiety (0-4), mild anxiety (5-9), moderate anxiety (10-14), or severe anxiety (15-21) (Löwe et al., 2008) .”
The effect of age, gender, income, work, and physical activity on mental health during coronavirus disease (COVID-19) lockdown in Austria (2020, background): “Previous representative population studies from Germany found that 5% scored above the same cut-off (greater-equal 10 points) in 2008 [33] or 6% in 2017 [35].”
The enemy who sealed the world: effects quarantine due to the COVID-19 on sleep quality, anxiety, and psychological distress in the Italian population (2020, neutral): “To better understand the current Italian status, one aim of this study was to compare our data with previous ones reported by researches on the general population and collected under usual conditions [11,13,14].”
Investigating Mental Health of US College Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-Sectional Survey Study (2020, methodology): “The GAD-7 is a validated questionnaire used in most mental health care settings as a screening tool for major anxiety disorders such as generalized anxiety disorder or panic disorder [12], consisting of 7 items based on GAD symptoms.”
Clinician-Assisted Internet-Based Treatment is Effective for Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Randomized Controlled Trial (2009, methodology): “A score of 10 on the GAD-7, however, has been identified as an important threshold for identifying DSM-IVcongruent GAD, with increasing scores indicating greater severity of GAD [42].”
Anxiety and Depression Across Gender and Sexual Minorities: Implications for Transgender, Gender Nonconforming, Pansexual, Demisexual, Asexual, Queer, and Questioning Individuals (2019, methodology): “Similar to the PHQ-9, the GAD-7 has demonstrated robust psychometric properties and has been validated in the general population (Löwe et al., 2008; Plummer, Manea, Trepel, & Mcmillan, 2016).”
The Impact of COVID-19 on Physical Activity Behavior and Well-Being of Canadians (2020, result): “[19] also showed supporting evidence that the GAD-7 scale was both reliable and valid.”
Validity and Reliability Study for the Turkish Adaptation of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7)Scale (2013, background): “It has been reported that the Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7) Scale is a valid brief test in clinical, investigational and general population samples (10,11,12).”
Depression, anxiety and somatization in primary care: syndrome overlap and functional impairment. (2008, methodology): “Anxiety Anxiety was assessed with the 7-item PHQ Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale (GAD-7), which has good internal consistency and test–retest reliability as well as convergent, construct, criterion, procedural and factorial validity for the diagnosis of GAD [4,30,31].”
Minority Stressors and Psychological Distress in Transgender Individuals (2017, positive): “This measure has been used with transgender individuals (Pflum, Testa, Balsam, Goldblum, & Bongar, 2015), demonstrated good construct validity and internal reliability in the general population (Löwe et al., 2008) and is used in both research and clinical settings.”
Loneliness in the general population: prevalence, determinants and relations to mental health (2017, methodology): “screening items of the short form of the GAD-7 (Generalized Anxiety Disorder [GAD]-7 Scale; [26]).”