A Rating Instrument for Anxiety Disorders (anxiety status)
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Zung, W. W. (1971). A rating instrument for anxiety disorders. Psychosomatics, 12(6), 371-379.
1= none or insignificant in intensity or duration, present none or a little of time in frequency; 2= mild in intensity or duration, present some of the time in frequency; 3= of moderate severity, present a good part of the time in frequency; 4= severe in intensity or duration, present most of all of the time in frequency.
1. Anxiousness: Do you ever feel nervous and anxious?
2. Fear: Have you ever felt afraid?
3. Panic: How easily do you get upset? Ever have panic spells or feel like it?
4. Mental disintegration: Do you ever feel like you’re falling apart? Going to pieces?
5. Apprehension: Have you ever felt uneasy? Or that something terrible was going to happen?
6. Tremors: Have you had times when you feel yourself trembling? shaking?
7. Body Aches and Pains: Do you have head aches? neck or back pains?
8. Easy fatiguability, weakness: How easily do you get tired? Ever have spells of weakness?
9. Restlessness: Do you ever find yourself restless and can’t sit still?
10. Palpitation: Have you ever felt that your heart was running away?
11. Dizziness: Do you have dizzy spells?
12. Faintness: Do you ever have fainting spells? or feel like it?
13. Dyspnea: Ever have trouble with your breathing?
14. Paresthesias: Ever have feelings of numbness and tingling in your fingertips? or around your mouth?
15. Nausea and vomiting: Do you ever feel sick to your stomach or feel like vomiting?
16. Urinary frequency: How often do you need to empty your bladder?
17. Sweating: Do you ever get wet, clammy hands?
18. Face flushing: Do you ever feel your face getting hot and blushing?
19. Insomnia: Have you been sleeping?
20. Nightmares: Do you have dreams that scare you?
Split-half reliability (0.83 for ASI and 0.71 for SAS)
Known group validity
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Zung, W. W. (1971). A rating instrument for anxiety disorders. Psychosomatics, 12(6), 371-379.
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