- Anxiety Tracker – Meant to be taken for those who have been facing anxiety in their day to day life. Anxiety can manifest as worries, apprehensions and fears about situations, objects, places or everyday affairs. The bodily symptoms of anxiety include palpitations, butterfly sensations in tummy, headaches, muscle sores, sweating, tremulousness to name a few. Please fill in this simple self reporting tool to get a score and severity of anxiety. Click here to begin.
- Depression Tracker – Depression is one of the most common mental health disorders affecting 1 in 5 individuals. It presents as sadness of mood, low physical & mental energy and inability to derive pleasure in previously pleasurable activities. It may also affect sleep, appetite, memory and confidence level. Individuals may contemplate and even attempt self harm when in severe depression. This self reporting tool generates a score and severity of depression. Click here to begin.
- Stress Tracker – This self reporting tool helps to generate a score and severity of perceived stress in personal and professional domains of life. Stress can be simply defined as a state of psychological imbalance resulting from the disparity between situational demand and the individual’s ability and/or motivation to meet those demands. Chronic stress can result in mood changes, cognitive dullness, sleep & appetite disturbances and may precipitate a number of mental health disorders in vulnerable individuals. Click here to begin.
Disclaimer: These self assessment tools are not meant for a mental disorder diagnosis. These are only to guide the users that they need to seek help from a mental health professional for their mental health problems. Please consult a psychiatrist for medical advice, diagnosis and treatment.
Acknowledgements
Anxiety Tracker (GAD-7) and Depression Tracker (PHQ-9) were created by Dr Robert Spitzer and his colleagues. These are freely available, validated tools to assess anxiety and depression in general population. The scores have specific norms to indicate the cut offs for No, Mild, Moderate and Severe illness.
Spitzer RL, Kroenke K, Williams JBW, for the Patient Health Questionnaire Primary Care Study Group. Validation and utility of a self-report version of PRIME-MD: the PHQ Primary Care Study. JAMA 1999;282:1737-1744.
Stress Tracker (Perceived Stress Scale) was created by Sheldon Cohen in 1983. It is a popular, freely available, validated tool to measure perceived stress in general population. The scores have specific norms to indicate the cut offs for low, moderate and high perceived stress.
Cohen, S., Kamarck, T., and Mermelstein, R. (1983). A global measure of perceived stress. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 24, 386-396