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Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7) Online Calculator

Dizziness can affect more than balance. It can also make daily activities feel stressful, uncertain, or harder to manage. These questions ask about anxiety symptoms over the past 2 weeks because worry, tension, and feeling on edge can sometimes happen along with dizziness. The score does not give a diagnosis, but it can help show how these symptoms may be affecting daily life and help guide a conversation with a healthcare provider.

Why use the GAD-7?

The Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7) scale helps clinicians understand how much anxiety symptoms may be affecting a care-seeker’s daily life. Anxiety can happen alongside dizziness and may make symptoms feel more stressful, unpredictable, or harder to manage. The GAD-7 does not diagnose the cause of dizziness, but it can provide useful context when symptoms include worry, tension, nervousness, or feeling on edge. It can also be used to track patient-reported change over time.

Common Clinical Uses

Clinicians may use the GAD-7 to:

  • Screen for anxiety symptoms

  • Understand how worry or tension may affect daily function

  • Support baseline documentation and care planning

  • Guide conversations about mental health support when appropriate

  • Measure patient-reported change over time

  • Document symptom progress during treatment

GAD-7 Online Calculator

Answer the following prompts based on how you have felt during the past 2 weeks. Your score will become visible after you have responded to every question.

Over the last 2 weeks, how often have you been bothered by the following problems?

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
Complete all required questions to view the score.

Literature and scoring references

  1. Spitzer RL, Kroenke K, Williams JBW, Löwe B. A brief measure for assessing generalized anxiety disorder: the GAD-7. Archives of Internal Medicine. 2006;166(10):1092–1097.
  2. Kroenke K, Spitzer RL, Williams JBW, Monahan PO, Löwe B. Anxiety disorders in primary care: prevalence, impairment, comorbidity, and detection. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2007;146(5):317–325.
  3. Plummer F, Manea L, Trepel D, McMillan D. Screening for anxiety disorders with the GAD-7 and GAD-2: a systematic review and diagnostic meta-analysis. General Hospital Psychiatry. 2016;39:24–31.
  4. Löwe B, Decker O, Müller S, Brähler E, Schellberg D, Herzog W, Herzberg PY. Validation and standardization of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Screener (GAD-7) in the general population. Medical Care. 2008;46(3):266–274.

The GAD-7 was developed by Drs. Robert L. Spitzer, Janet B.W. Williams, Kurt Kroenke, and colleagues, with an educational grant from Pfizer Inc. No permission is required to reproduce, translate, display, or distribute the instrument.

Looking for a printable version?

Our design team has made improvements to the visual design of the standard questionnaire and we are providing this free of charge. Download the printable PDF version of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7) questionnaire.