PROMIS Anxiety

PROMIS Anxiety is a standardized self-report instrument developed under the National Institutes of Health (NIH) PROMIS initiative to evaluate self-reported fear (fearfulness, panic), anxious misery (worry, dread), hyperarousal (tension, nervousness, restlessness), and somatic symptoms of arousal such as racing heart and dizziness. Parallel adult, pediatric self-report, and parent-proxy versions allow the same construct to be tracked across the lifespan.

Items are administered as a fixed short form or as a computer adaptive test (CAT) and scored on a population-normed T-score metric centered at 50, where higher scores indicate greater anxiety. It functions as a shared metric across multidisciplinary teams — occupational therapists, mental health clinicians, and physicians — tracking emotional health alongside function across populations.

PROMIS Global Health-10 is officially listed in the HealthMeasures library as the PROMIS Short Form v1.0 – Anxiety 4a (additional versions 6a, 7a and 8a exist)

Learn More: Read our overview on PROMIS Measures for Clinicians.

Licensing Notes: PROMIS® is a registered trademark of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. PROMIS instruments are publicly available through HealthMeasures without licensing or royalty fees for individual clinical and educational use. However, integrating these tools into an electronic platform or EHR requires HealthMeasures Electronic Administration Permission (HEAP) to ensure digital formatting and scoring validity.