Assessment Page: PHQ-9, GAD-7, WHO-5 and 14 More Scales

The Assessment page scores 17 short questionnaires in three tabs: Personality, Career and Mental Health. Nine are health screens — PHQ-9, GAD-7, Zung's SDS and SAS, PSS-10, WHO-5, K6, ISI and the MBI burnout inventory; Rosenberg self-esteem and Diener's SWLS sit in Personality. Each keeps its own wording, scale and published cut-points, so a result reads as the band the total falls into: educational self-assessment only, not a diagnosis or medical advice.

Updated 2026-10-01Reviewed by CalcX Editorial Team6 sources5 min read

How a questionnaire runs

Choose a tab and a card.Personality, Career and Mental Health group the instruments; cards name each test and its item count, e.g. PHQ-9, 9 Q.
Answer each item.Picking an option advances after a short pause; the ← and → buttons walk the set and the progress bar counts answered items.
Watch for the crisis banner.In PHQ-9, any answer above "Not at all" on item 9 (thoughts of self-harm) raises the crisis banner at once, on the question and result pages, before any total exists.
Open the result."See Results" appears only when every item is answered; the result shows the band, the instrument's description and score bars scaled to its range.
Retake or go back.Retake clears every answer and restarts the instrument; Back returns to the category list.

Worked readouts

Every figure below comes from the page's own scoring code; the stated responses reproduce it.

Instrument	Responses	Readout
PHQ-9 (9)	"Several days" on all nine	9 → Mild (5-9); one item at "More than half the days" → 10 → Moderate (10-14)
GAD-7 (7)	"Several days" on all seven	7 → Mild (5-9)
SDS (20)	"Often" on all twenty	raw 50 → standard 62 → Moderate (60-69)
SAS (20)	"Rarely" on all twenty	raw 35 → standard 43 → Normal (<50)
WHO-5 (5)	"All of the time" on all five	100/100, "Good well-being"
MBI (22)	"Every day" on all twenty-two	EE 54/54, DP 30/30, PA 48/48 — all High
K6 (6)	"Most of the time" on all six	18 → High distress (13-24)
ISI (7)	"Moderate" on all seven	14 → Subthreshold insomnia (8-14)

How a total becomes a band

Each option carries points fixed by the instrument: 0–3 for PHQ-9, GAD-7 and K6; 1–4 for SDS and SAS; 0–4 for PSS-10; 0–6 for the MBI; 0–5 on WHO-5's six choices. Items add into one dimension, or several on the type panels, and the total meets the authors' cut-points: PHQ-9 at 5/10/15/20, GAD-7 severe at 15, K6 high at 13, ISI moderate at 15 and severe at 22. Two conversions matter: WHO-5 multiplies its raw 0–25 by four, and SDS/SAS take the integer part of raw × 1.25. Personality and career panels report percentages, each dimension divided by its own item maximum.

What the bands are not

Educational self-assessment, not a diagnosis or medical advice.: Bands are triage thresholds from validation papers, and each instrument covers a fixed window — two weeks for PHQ-9, GAD-7 and WHO-5, one month for PSS-10. The gap between PHQ-9 9 and 10 is one answer: the result describes your replies, not a clinical assessment. Persistent distress or thoughts of self-harm belong with a health professional or crisis service, not this page.
Cut-points travel with their norms.: The MBI bars use 0–6 scoring with MBI-HSS norms (EE high at 27, DP high at 13, PA low at 31); a 1–4 scoring would place the same person elsewhere. Zung's score is floored: raw 35 reads 43, not 44.
What it does not do:: no clinical interpretation, treatment advice, risk stratification or record keeping. Published clinical scores live at Clinical Scores; body, fitness, alcohol and pregnancy maths at Health.

Same word, two point values

SDS catches hand-scoring. Ten of its twenty items are reverse-keyed — "I feel hopeful about the future" is the healthy answer — so the page flips the response words: "Always" scores 4 points forward and 1 reversed. Answering the same word on all twenty items gives raw 50 whichever word it is → standard 62 → Moderate (60-69). Choosing by button position instead — always the third option — gives raw 60 → 75 → Severe (≥70): one band apart. PSS-10 (six of ten items), Rosenberg (five of ten) and the MBTI's two introversion items reverse the same way.

Where it fits

Preparing for a clinical conversation

PHQ-9 9 is mild and 10 moderate: the total quantifies two weeks of frequency, while the items say which symptoms to raise. Note the highest items for an appointment; the page will not follow up.

A single instrument over time

PSS-10 20 is moderate (14–26), WHO-5 60 still reads "Good well-being", and K6 18 reads high distress. Track one instrument against its own earlier readings, not across scales.

Team and self-reflection panels

MBTI answers build four 0–50 axes and report I 84% against E 36% on an all-"Strongly Disagree" run; Gallup normalises each theme by its own item maximum, so a full-agreement run returns 100% everywhere.

References

Kroenke, Spitzer & Williams, The PHQ-9, J Gen Intern Med 16(9), 2001, pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov （访问日期：2026-10-01）— the 5/10/15/20 bands.
Spitzer, Kroenke, Williams & Löwe, The GAD-7, Arch Intern Med 166(10), 2006, pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov （访问日期：2026-10-01）— the 5/10/15 cut-points.
Topp, Østergaard, Søndergaard & Bech, The WHO-5 Well-Being Index, Psychother Psychosom 84(3), 2015, pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov （访问日期：2026-10-01）— the ×4 conversion and the ≤50 threshold.
Morin, Belleville, Bélanger & Ivers, The Insomnia Severity Index, Sleep 34(5), 2011, pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov （访问日期：2026-10-01）— the 8/15/22 bands.
Kessler et al., Screening for serious mental illness in the general population, Arch Gen Psychiatry 60(2), 2003, pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov （访问日期：2026-10-01）— the 13 cut-point.
World Health Organization, Depressive disorder (depression), who.int （访问日期：2026-10-01）— symptom duration and professional assessment.