Table 4.
Distribution of Within-item GAD-7 Scores Among Participants With an Above Threshold Score on the GAD-7 but not on the DASS-21 Anxiety Scale (n = 41).
| GAD-7 Question | GAD-7 Item Score |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
|
| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |
| 1. Feeling nervous, anxious, or on edge | 7 (17) | 23 (56) | 5 (12) | 6 (15) |
| 2. Not being able to control or stop worrying | 7 (17) | 20 (49) | 6 (15) | 8 (19) |
| 3. Worrying too much about different things | 8 (19) | 16 (39) | 7 (17) | 10 (25) |
| 4. Trouble relaxing | 6 (15) | 16 (39) | 7 (17) | 12 (29) |
| 5. Being so restless that it is hard to sit still | 20 (49) | 14 (34) | 5 (12) | 2 (5) |
| 6. Becoming easily annoyed or irritable | 3 (7) | 25 (61) | 7 (17) | 6 (15) |
| 7. Feeling afraid as if something awful might happen | 23 (56) | 10 (25) | 5 (12) | 3 (7) |