Welcome to the Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS-v1.1)

Completing this Psychological Screening Test

This screening quiz is a symtpoms checklist for adult ADD. It is not a diagnostic test.

To take the questionnaire, please click the radio button next to the selection which best reflects how each statement applies to you. The items below refer to how you have felt and conducted yourself over the past 6 months.

Take the Quiz

Please note: This test will only be scored correctly if you answer each one of the questions.

Please check the one response to each item that best describes how you have felt and conducted yourself over the past 6 months.

1. How often do you have trouble wrapping up the final details of a project, once the challenging parts have been done?

• Never
• Rarely
• Sometimes
• Often
• Very Often

2. How often do you have difficulty getting things in order when you have to do a task that requires organization?

• Never
• Rarely
• Sometimes
• Often
• Very Often

3. How often do you have problems remembering appointments or obligations?

• Never
• Rarely
• Sometimes
• Often
• Very Often

4. When you have a task that requires a lot of thought, how often do you avoid or delay getting started?

• Never
• Rarely
• Sometimes
• Often
• Very Often

5. How often do you fidget or squirm with your hands or feet when you have to sit down for a long time?

• Never
• Rarely
• Sometimes
• Often
• Very Often

6. How often do you feel overly active and compelled to do things, like you were driven by a motor?

• Never
• Rarely
• Sometimes
• Often
• Very Often
  
  

About Scoring this Psychological Questionnaire

When your quiz is scored, one of 2 different information pages will appear to describe the results for scores in your range, along with further details of how your score was computed.

Additional Information

This is a screening examination for adult ADD. It is not a diagnostic test.

This quiz is adapted from the 18-question symptom checklist called the Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS-v1.1), developed in conjunction with the World Health Organization and the Workgroup on Adult ADHD. On the original 18-question test, only 6 of the questions are directly scored to indicate ADHD symptoms, and it is these 6 questions which are included here. The original team of psychiatrists and researchers included:

Lenard Adler, MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology
New York University Medical School

Ronald C. Kessler, PhD
Professor, Department of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School

Thomas Spencer, MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

References:

1. Schweitzer JB, et al. Med Clin North Am. 2001;85(3):10-11, 757-777.
2. Barkley RA. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Handbook for Diagnosis and Treatment. 2nd ed. 1998.
3. Biederman J, et al. Am J Psychiatry.1993;150:1792-1798.
4. American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision. Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Association. 2000: 85-93.

Further information is provided on the results page for this screening test.