PsycheIT’s Screening page puts two of the world’s most trusted mental health assessment tools directly in your hands. The PHQ-9 and GAD-7 questionnaires are the same standardized instruments used by doctors and counselors globally to detect and measure the severity of depression and anxiety. Completing them takes under five minutes, the results are instant, and — critically — nothing you enter is ever stored or linked to your identity.Documentation Index
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About the Screening Tools
Both questionnaires follow the same answer scale for every question:| Score | Label |
|---|---|
| 0 | Not at all |
| 1 | Several days |
| 2 | More than half the days |
| 3 | Nearly every day |
PHQ-9 — Depression Screening
The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) is a nine-item instrument designed to detect and measure the severity of depressive episodes. Each of the nine questions corresponds to a core diagnostic criterion for major depressive disorder. PHQ-9 Questions:- Little interest or pleasure in doing things
- Feeling down, depressed, or hopeless
- Trouble falling or staying asleep, or sleeping too much
- Feeling tired or having little energy
- Poor appetite or overeating
- Feeling bad about yourself — or that you are a failure or have let yourself or your family down
- Trouble concentrating on things, such as reading the newspaper or watching television
- Moving or speaking so slowly that other people could have noticed — or being so fidgety or restless that you have been moving around a lot more than usual
- Thoughts that you would be better off dead or of hurting yourself in some way
| Score Range | Severity |
|---|---|
| 0 – 4 | Minimal depression |
| 5 – 9 | Mild depression |
| 10 – 14 | Moderate depression |
| 15 – 19 | Moderately severe depression |
| 20 – 27 | Severe depression |
GAD-7 — Anxiety Screening
The Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item scale (GAD-7) is a seven-item instrument that screens for and measures the severity of generalized anxiety disorder. It is one of the most widely validated anxiety screening tools in clinical practice. GAD-7 Questions:- Feeling nervous, anxious, or on edge
- Not being able to stop or control worrying
- Worrying too much about different things
- Trouble relaxing
- Being so restless that it is hard to sit still
- Becoming easily annoyed or irritable
- Feeling afraid as if something awful might happen
| Score Range | Severity |
|---|---|
| 0 – 4 | Minimal anxiety |
| 5 – 9 | Mild anxiety |
| 10 – 14 | Moderate anxiety |
| 15 – 21 | Severe anxiety |
Privacy
Your responses to both the PHQ-9 and GAD-7 are completely anonymous and not stored on any server. PsycheIT processes your answers locally in the browser to calculate your score — no data is transmitted to or saved by the backend. You can answer honestly without any concern about your results being seen by your college, your family, or anyone else.
When to Seek Help
Using the Screening Page
Navigate to the screening page
Go to
/screening in your browser after logging in to PsycheIT. The page opens with a brief introduction and a disclaimer that your responses are anonymous.Select a questionnaire tab
Click the PHQ-9 (Depression) tab or the GAD-7 (Anxiety) tab depending on what you want to assess. You can complete both in the same session by switching tabs.
Answer all questions honestly
For each question, select the option that best describes how often you have experienced that symptom over the past two weeks. There are no right or wrong answers — honest responses give the most useful result.