Panic Disorder Test

People who want a structured view of their current difficulties can use this panic disorder test to organize a self-report summary. A current panic disorder severity assessment can clarify how substantial the overall burden feels and whether tracking change would be useful. The result offers a current severity profile that can be revisited when circumstances change.

What This Assessment Explores

Questions focus on the previous seven days, asking about attack frequency and distress, fears about another episode, avoidance of places or bodily sensations, and disruption to responsibilities and relationships. For someone tracking panic disorder symptoms, this questionnaire offers a compact way to organize how panic-related difficulties are affecting ordinary routines.

The questionnaire brings together these areas:

• Attack frequency and distress show the recent burden and intensity of episodes.
• Anticipatory worry captures fears about the next attack and its possible consequences.
• Situational and sensation-related avoidance shows how fear restricts places or activities.
• Functional interference indicates effects on work, home responsibilities, and social life.

The result is a quantitative estimate of overall panic-disorder symptom severity. It is most useful for seeing whether the current pattern feels limited, substantial, or highly disruptive across daily life.

Methodology and Evidence Base

Each item uses five ordered response options, moving from no symptoms or interference to extreme frequency, distress, avoidance, or impairment. Higher displayed totals indicate greater overall severity within the stated range, while the seven-day frame makes the result a summary of recent patterns rather than a single current episode. The online format does not document how individual responses are weighted.

The displayed Panic Disorder Severity Scale (PDSS) has a total range of 0-28; the questionnaire is conceptually consistent with the source instrument described by Shear et al. (1997). Results are shown as Low severity (0-9), Moderate severity (10-18), or High severity (19-28). Later studies examined replication, validity, and the self-report version, including Houck et al. (2002) and Shear et al. (2001). These studies do not establish separate norms for this web presentation.

When using this self-report panic assessment, compare the result with recent circumstances as you track change. Honest self-report and current context can shift scores, so trends across comparable time points are more informative than one isolated result.