TABLE 2.

DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for Generalized Anxiety Disorder.

DSM-5 criteria	Primary	GAD-7 items	PSWQ-8 items
Excessive anxiety and worry, for at least 6 months, about a number of events or activities.	Y	Item 3. Worrying too much about different things.	Item 2. Many situations make me worry. Item 4. When I am under pressure, I worry a lot.
Difficulties in controlling the worry.	Y	Item 2. Not being able to stop or control worrying.	Item 1. My worries overwhelm me Item 3. I know I should not worry about things, but I just cannot help it. Item 5. I am always worrying about something. Item 6. As soon as I finish one task, I start to worry about everything else I must do. Item 7. I have been a worrier all my life Item 8. I have been worrying about different things.
Three (or more) of the following six symptoms:
(1) Restlessness, feeling keyed up or on edge.	N	Item 1. Feeling nervous, anxious, or on edge. Item 5. Being so restless that it’s hard to sit still
(2) Being easily fatigued.	N	Not represented by any item.
(3) Difficulty concentrating or mind going blank.	N	Not represented by any item.
(4) Irritability.	N	Item 6. Becoming easily annoyed or irritable.
(5) Muscle tension.	N	Item 4. Trouble relaxing.
(6) Sleep disturbance.	N
- Felling afraid is not included in the criteria for Generalized Anxiety Disorder 300.02 (F41.1)	N	Item 7. Feeling afraid as if something awful might happen.

Primary symptoms are marked with Y. GAD-7, General Anxiety Disorder-7 (Spitzer et al., 2006); PSWQ-8, Penn State Worry Questionnaire-8 (Hopko et al., 2003).