Abstract Background Zung's Self-rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) is a norm-referenced scale
which enjoys widespread use a screener for anxiety disorders. However, recent research …

Background While the gold standard for the diagnosis of mental disorders remains the
structured clinical interview, self-report measures continue to play an important role in …

Self-rating Anxiety Scale (SAS), introduced by Zung, has been widely used in research and
in clinical practice for the detection of anxiety. The present study aims at standardizing the …

For the purpose of constructing the Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS; Zung, 1971), illustrative
verbatim words were made from patient interviews and examples were selected for inclusion …

Background The Anxiety Symptoms Questionnaire (ASQ) is a brief self-report questionnaire
which measures frequency and intensity of symptoms and was developed to improve …

Background The paper describes the rationale, sensitivity and specificity of the Anxiety
Screening Questionnaire (ASQ), a disorder-specific screening instrument for use in primary …

Researchers and clinicians wishing to assess anxiety must choose from among numerous
assessment options, many of which purport to measure the same or a similar construct. A …

Brief measures of anxiety-related severity and impairment that can be used across anxiety
disorders and with subsyndromal anxiety are lacking. The Overall Anxiety Severity and …

Abstract Background Zung's Self-rating Depression Scale (SDS) is an established norm-
referenced screening measure used to identify the presence of depressive disorders in …

Patient self-reported symptoms are of crucial importance to identify anxiety disorders, as well
as to monitor their treatment in clinical practice and research. Thus, for evidence-based …