Item name

Depression Anxiety Stress Scale: Q20

epiCentre name

DASSQ20

Definition

Patient response to DASS statement “I felt scared without any good reason” from selection of responses detailed in values below

Usage

The score on this item contributes to the DASS anxiety score (see 2.5.101)

ID

2-164

Mandatory

Source

Lovibond SH and Lovibond PF (1995) Manual for the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (2nd Edition). Sydney:
Psychology Foundation. ISBN 7334-1423-0 (http://www2.psy.unsw.edu.au/dass/)

Element of

Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS)

Business rules

Nil

Dependencies

Data type

Numeric

Format

N

Maximum length

1

Data domain

Code	Description
0	Did not apply to me at all
1	Applied to me to some degree, or some of the time
2	Applied to me to a considerable degree, or a good part of the time
3	Applied to me very much, or most of the time

Conditions

Nil

Level

Survey

Derived item

Derived by

Not applicable