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title: "GAD-2"
description: "\"GAD\" stands for \"Generalised Anxiety Disorder\" and this is the two item short form from the GAD-7 and sibling to the PHQ-2 (\"Personal Health Questionnaire-2\", [q.v.](https://www.psyctc.org/psyctc/glossary2/phq-2/)). When the GAD-2 is combined with the PHQ-2 we get the PHQ-4. #### Details…"
url: "https://www.psyctc.org/psyctc/glossary2/gad-2/"
updated: "2026-06-01"
category: All OM book glossary entries
---

# GAD-2

"GAD" stands for "Generalised Anxiety Disorder" and this is the two item short form from the GAD-7 and sibling to the PHQ-2 ("Personal Health Questionnaire-2", [q.v.](https://www.psyctc.org/psyctc/glossary2/phq-2/)). When the GAD-2 is combined with the PHQ-2 we get the PHQ-4.

#### Details

It consists of just two items from the GAD-7: "Feeling nervous, anxious or on edge" and "Not being able to stop or control worrying". Like the other measures in the PHQ/GAD family the stem is “Over the last 2 weeks, how often have you been bothered by the following problems?” and the scoring is on a four point scale: “Not at all”, “Several days”, “More than half the days” and “Nearly every day” scored 0, 1, 2 and 3 so the score range is from zero to six. It is described as a screening measure but as with any such very short self-report measures, its screening parameters, even in use where depression is very prevalent, will be terrible and clearly the score range is very limited for any use.

#### Try also

- [GAD-7](https://www.psyctc.org/psyctc/glossary2/gad-7-general-anxiety-disorder-7/)
- [PHQ-2](https://www.psyctc.org/psyctc/glossary2/phq-2/)
- [PHQ-4](https://www.psyctc.org/psyctc/glossary2/phq-4/)
- [PHQ-9](https://www.psyctc.org/psyctc/glossary2/phq-9-patient-health-questionnaire-9-items/)
- [Screening](https://www.psyctc.org/psyctc/glossary2/screening/)

#### Chapters

Not covered in the OMbook.

#### Online resources

Currently one of [my shiny apps](https://shiny.psyctc.org/) models screening: [https://shiny.psyctc.org/apps/Screening/](https://shiny.psyctc.org/apps/Screening/). More to be done on that!

#### Dates

First created 24.v.26.