Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale.

HAM-A / HARS

What it measures

Clinician-rated severity of anxiety across psychic (anxious mood, tension, fears, insomnia, cognition) and somatic (muscular, sensory, cardiovascular, respiratory, GI, autonomic) symptom clusters

Length and format

14 items. Clinician rating 0-4 per item, summed 0-56; bands ~<=17 mild, 18-24 moderate, 25-30 severe (clinician-rated/interview)

Language versions

Most major languages worldwide (trial use)

Normative data

No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.

Licence

public-domain / open

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Reference

Hamilton, M. (1959). The assessment of anxiety states by rating. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 32(1), 50-55.