The WHO adult ADHD screener. Six questions, one minute.
These are the six questions of the ASRS v1.1, the adult ADHD screener the World Health Organization developed with Harvard and NYU and the one used in clinical practice and research since 2005. It was built to catch a pattern, not to tell you what you want to hear. It won't tell you whether you have ADHD. It will tell you whether it's worth looking closer.
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ASRS v1.1 Part A, reproduced verbatim
Please answer the questions below, rating yourself on each of the criteria shown. As you answer each question, select the box that best describes how you have felt and conducted yourself over the past 6 months.
Shaded boxes are the ones the screener counts.
Your result shows here
Answer all six questions to see where you land.
This is a screener, not a diagnosis. Only an evaluation can tell whether ADHD is what's going on.
What a screener can't do
A screener counts symptoms. It can't tell you where they come from. Trouble finishing things, losing track of obligations and a mind that won't sit still show up with ADHD, and they also show up with anxiety, depression, poor sleep and a few other things that feel the same from the inside.
That is what an evaluation is for. At Exhale it's a single video visit with a board-certified psychiatrist: a structured interview, validated rating scales and computerized cognitive testing, with the findings and the diagnosis talked through in that same visit. If ADHD is the answer, treatment starts there and your test results become the baseline you're measured against. If it isn't, you'll hear what we found and where to go next. And if the picture is genuinely unclear, you'll hear that too, along with what would settle it.
The 6-question Adult Self-Report Scale-Version1.1 (ASRS-V1.1) Screener is a subset of the 18-question Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale-Version1.1 (Adult ASRS-V1.1) Symptom Checklist. © New York University and the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Reproduced with attribution under the terms published by NYU Technology Opportunities and Ventures.
Kessler RC, Adler L, Ames M, et al. The World Health Organization Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS): a short screening scale for use in the general population. Psychological Medicine. 2005;35(2):245-256.
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