Clinical: mood, anxiety and stress.

Cumulative childhood adversity before age 18 - abuse (emotional, physical, sexual), neglect (emotional, physical) and household dysfunction (parental separation, domestic violence, household substance use, household mental illness, incarcerated household member); summed to an ACE score 0-10

Frequency of catastrophic thoughts about the consequences of anxiety/panic (loss of control, physical catastrophe), the cognitive half of the 'fear of fear' construct

Self-report severity of manic/hypomanic symptoms over the past week across five domains: elevated mood, self-confidence, sleep, speech, and activity

Differential diagnosis and dimensional severity of anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, trauma- and stressor-related, mood, somatic-symptom and substance-use disorders, with a clinician severity rating per diagnosis

Anxiety sensitivity - the fear of anxiety-related sensations because of beliefs about their harmful consequences - across three replicable facets: physical concerns, cognitive concerns, and social concerns

Severity of anxiety symptoms in the past week, weighted toward somatic/panic-type symptoms (numbness, dizziness, heart pounding, fear of losing control) to discriminate anxiety from depression

Severity of depressive symptoms (past week); precursor to BDI-II

Self-reported severity of depression over the past 2 weeks; aligned to DSM-IV MDD symptom criteria; cognitive-affective and somatic-vegetative factors

Negative expectancies about the future / hopelessness across three facets (feelings about the future, loss of motivation, future expectations); a suicide-risk-relevant construct adjacent to depression

Severity of current suicidal ideation - the intensity of attitudes, behaviors and plans to die by suicide in the past week; a self-report counterpart to the clinician Scale for Suicide Ideation (SSI)

Fear of bodily sensations associated with anxiety/panic (interoceptive fear), one half of the 'fear of fear' construct in panic and agoraphobia

Apprehension and distress about being evaluated negatively by others (fear of negative evaluation), the core cognitive feature of social anxiety; a trait-like disposition

Depression severity specifically in people with schizophrenia, designed to separate depressive symptoms from negative and extrapyramidal symptoms.

Frequency of depressive symptomatology in the past week (depressed affect, positive affect, somatic/retarded activity, interpersonal); designed for general-population epidemiology, not diagnosis

Depressive symptom frequency revised to align with DSM-IV MDD criteria (adds anhedonia, dysphoria, appetite/weight, sleep, concentration, suicidal ideation domains)

Retrospective self-report of childhood maltreatment on 5 subscales - emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional neglect, physical neglect - plus a 3-item minimisation/denial validity scale

Structured clinical interview rating the 20 DSM-5 PTSD symptoms (frequency + intensity combined into severity), onset/duration, distress, functional impairment and the dissociative subtype; yields current/lifetime diagnosis

Severity and intensity of suicidal ideation and the type, frequency and lethality of suicidal behavior, across four constructs (severity of ideation, intensity of ideation, behavior, lethality); current and lifetime versions

Stress-coping ability / resilience (hardiness, persistence, adaptability, control, spirituality); a protective-factor construct closely tied to stress and anxiety outcomes

Depression severity in people with dementia across 5 domains - mood-related signs, behavioural disturbance, physical signs, cyclic functions, and ideational disturbance

Dysfunctional, physiologically-based anxiety symptoms triggered by thoughts/information about COVID-19.

Three correlated negative-affect dimensions: depression (dysphoria, hopelessness, anhedonia), anxiety (autonomic arousal, situational anxiety), and stress/tension (irritability, over-reactivity, difficulty relaxing)

Full-length depression, anxiety and stress dimensions (14 items each); the original parent of the DASS-21

OCD severity along four empirically supported symptom dimensions: contamination, responsibility for harm, unacceptable (taboo) thoughts, symmetry/ordering; each dimension rated on five severity parameters

Perinatal (postnatal and antenatal) depression symptoms in the past 7 days; deliberately excludes somatic items confounded by normal postpartum physiology; includes an anxiety subset and a self-harm item

Fear and anxiety specifically related to COVID-19 (cognitive and physiological fear reactions).

Phobic avoidance across three subscales (agoraphobia, blood-injury phobia, social phobia) plus a global phobia item and an anxiety-depression item; an outcome measure for phobia treatment

Breadth and intensity of fears across a wide range of stimuli/situations (animals, social, tissue-damage/death, classical-phobia, noises, etc.); a fear-inventory for behaviour therapy

Ultra-brief anxiety screen (feeling nervous/anxious + uncontrollable worry, past 2 weeks)

Generalized anxiety symptom severity (past 2 weeks: nervousness, uncontrollable worry, excessive worry, trouble relaxing, restlessness, irritability, fearfulness); also a good screen for panic, social anxiety, PTSD

Anxiety symptoms in older adults; a brief dimensional anxiety measure designed for ease of use in elderly and cognitively-impaired populations.

Depression in older adults; yes/no format and avoidance of somatic items that confound with physical aging; affective/cognitive emphasis

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

Clinician-rated severity of depression across mood, guilt, suicide, insomnia, work/activities, retardation, agitation, anxiety, somatic and weight items; emphasis on melancholic/somatic features

Cross-cultural trauma assessment in refugee, post-conflict and torture-survivor populations - a trauma-event checklist, an open description of the worst event, and PTSD symptom items plus culture-specific and refugee-specific distress items

Anxiety (HADS-A) and depression (HADS-D) symptoms in medically ill / non-psychiatric populations; deliberately excludes somatic symptoms that confound with physical illness

Self-report screen for hypomanic symptoms (lifetime 'high' periods) to detect bipolar-II and soft-bipolar features in patients presenting with depression; 32 hypomania symptom items plus contextual/impact items

Subjective distress following a specific traumatic event across three subscales: intrusion, avoidance, and hyperarousal (added in the revision)

Subjective stress reactions to a specific life event across two subscales: intrusion and avoidance (no hyperarousal)

ICD-11 PTSD (re-experiencing, avoidance, sense of current threat) and Complex PTSD (the PTSD clusters plus disturbances in self-organization: affect dysregulation, negative self-concept, disturbed relationships)

Intolerance of uncertainty - dispositional negative beliefs about uncertainty and its consequences; a transdiagnostic vulnerability central to worry/GAD, with prospective (desire for predictability) and inhibitory (paralysis in the face of uncertainty) facets

Transdiagnostic, empirically-derived symptom dimensions of depression and anxiety (e.g. dysphoria, lassitude, panic, social anxiety, well-being, suicidality, plus general depression and dysphoria factors).

Comprehensive depression severity covering all DSM criterion symptoms plus melancholic, atypical and anxious features; broader than QIDS

Non-specific psychological distress (anxious and depressive symptoms) over the past 4 weeks; a transdiagnostic distress screen for population mental-health surveillance, not a diagnostic measure

Ultra-brief non-specific psychological distress over the past 30 days; the 6-item subset optimized to discriminate serious mental illness (SMI) in population screening

Social anxiety disorder severity across 24 social-interaction and performance situations, each rated for both fear/anxiety and avoidance; subscales for performance vs social-interaction situations

Lifetime exposure to 16 categories of potentially traumatic events (plus an 'other' item); a trauma-history screen, not a symptom-severity measure (Criterion-A companion)

Depression severity and DSM-IV/ICD-10 major-depression symptom coverage; usable both as a severity rating scale and as a diagnostic algorithm.

Obsessive-compulsive complaints across four subscales: checking, washing/cleaning, slowness/repetition, doubting/conscientiousness

Metacognitive beliefs and processes implicated in psychological disorder (the metacognitive / S-REF model): positive beliefs about worry, negative beliefs about uncontrollability and danger of thoughts, cognitive confidence, need to control thoughts, and cognitive self-consciousness

Severity of agoraphobic avoidance of 26 common situations, each rated twice (avoidance when alone and when accompanied), plus a measure of panic-attack frequency; a behavioral-avoidance outcome measure

Clinician-rated core depression severity (apparent + reported sadness, inner tension, sleep, appetite, concentration, lassitude, inability to feel, pessimism, suicidal thoughts); designed to be sensitive to treatment change

Lifetime screen for bipolar-spectrum disorder: 13 yes/no manic/hypomanic symptom items plus a same-time co-occurrence item and a functional-impairment item

Dysfunctional beliefs underlying obsessive-compulsive disorder across three domains: Responsibility/Threat estimation, Perfectionism/Certainty, and Importance/Control of thoughts.

OCD symptom severity across six subscales: washing, checking, ordering, obsessing, hoarding, mental neutralizing (3 items each)

OCD symptoms across seven subscales (washing, checking, doubting, ordering, obsessing, hoarding, mental neutralizing), each rated for frequency and distress

Transdiagnostic anxiety severity and impairment (frequency, intensity, behavioral avoidance, interference with work, interference with social/family life) across any anxiety disorder(s)

Transdiagnostic depression severity and functional impairment (frequency, intensity, avoidance/withdrawal, work and social impairment) in any depressive presentation

Obsessional and compulsive behaviour across impaired control of mental activities, contamination, checking, and urges/worries of losing control; topography of obsessions/compulsions in normal and clinical samples

Severity of panic disorder with/without agoraphobia across five subscales: panic attacks, agoraphobic avoidance, anticipatory anxiety, disability, and health concerns