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Sheehan Anxiety Self-Rating Scale (SPRAS) Test

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Taking about four minutes and containing 35 questions, the Sheehan Anxiety Self-Rating Scale (SPRAS) Test helps you reflect on the intensity of symptoms such as physical tension, fear, worry, and sleep difficulties. Your result is a single score or severity band indicating the reported intensity of anxiety symptoms, supporting self-awareness and conversations about your wellbeing.
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How the Scales are Structured

Sheehan Anxiety ScaleSAS
Assesses the severity of self-reported anxiety symptoms and related impairment.
example score99/140
99/140Highexample score
0 – 19Low/normal
20 – 79Moderate
80 – 140High
A score of 99 falls in the High range, indicating pronounced anxiety symptoms and notable interference.
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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

Worried about constant anxiety
41%OF USERS
People who feel persistent worry or tension and want a quick check on how severe their anxiety symptoms are.
Panic and physical symptoms
34%OF USERS
Those experiencing panic-like episodes or bodily signs (racing heart, shortness of breath, dizziness) and want to see how much it disrupts daily life.
Tracking treatment progress
25%OF USERS
People already in therapy or under medical care who use a brief questionnaire to monitor changes in anxiety over time or during stressful periods.
BASED ON AGGREGATED, ANONYMIZED DATA FROM TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FREUDLY USERS.
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Once you complete the test, your results are compared with real-world data from people in your country.
Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.
Shaded area — where most people score
Dot — the average
You — your score lands on each curve after the test— your score, after the test
Sheehan Anxiety ScaleSAS
You?
Average86.5
Typical rangeTypical64 – 109
Possible0 – 140
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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

Indicate how much you have been bothered by the symptoms listed below during the past week.
    • Not at all
    • A little
    • Moderately
    • Quite a bit
    • Extremely
    • Not at all
    • A little
    • Moderately
    • Quite a lot
    • Extremely
    • Not at all
    • A little
    • Moderately
    • Quite a lot
    • Extremely
These are 3 of the 35 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.
WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

Sheehan Anxiety Self-Rating Scale (SPRAS) Test - Description and methodology of the test

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Readers who want to examine recurring anxiety symptoms may use the Sheehan Anxiety Self-Rating Scale (SPRAS) Test as a structured starting point. It considers bodily alarm, fear, avoidance, worry, sleep, and related experiences rather than treating one symptom in isolation. The questionnaire offers an anxiety assessment that can help people organize what they have noticed and choose useful questions for a conversation about their wellbeing.

What This Assessment Explores

The questions span physical arousal, emotional alarm, thinking patterns, and behavior. They address breathing changes, racing heart, sweating, dizziness, nausea, tingling, trembling, unreality, fear of catastrophe, fear of losing control, panic-like episodes, anticipatory anxiety, avoidance, dependence, health worry, fatigue, headaches, sleep disruption, mood shifts, intrusive thoughts, and repetitive rituals. The result summarizes the intensity of anxiety-related experiences rather than one isolated symptom.

For an anxiety self-assessment, this questionnaire is most useful when the respondent answers about their own experience honestly and consistently. Results use one overall scale. The Sheehan Anxiety Scale spans 0-140, with these displayed bands:

  • Low/normal (0-19) indicates a result in the range associated with ordinary anxiety levels.
  • Moderate (20-79) indicates elevated anxiety symptoms that may merit closer reflection.
  • High (80-140) indicates marked anxiety symptoms and a stronger reason to seek broader understanding of their pattern.

Methodology and Scientific Basis

Each item uses five response levels, from Not at all to Extremely. The questions cover physical sensations, emotional alarm, anticipated or unexpected attacks, avoidance, dependence, health worry, sleep, mood, and obsessional experiences. Respondents rate how strongly each experience applies to them.

The closest named source is the SPRAS instrument. The online questionnaire is conceptually consistent with that instrument, is not a documented formal adaptation, and has no independent standardization.

The 1983 Sheehan study establishes the instrument’s clinical context for anxiety and panic assessment. The 1988 panic-disorder medication study shows its use in treatment research, while Davis, Ross, and MacDonald’s 2002 study concerns anxiety screening in asthma care; none validates this online version.

This anxiety symptom scale relies on honest self-report and self-awareness. It does not specify how the five responses become the displayed total, so interpret the result as a descriptive severity estimate without inferring another scoring rule. Results are screening-oriented signals, not diagnostic findings; repeated administrations under comparable conditions may help track change alongside personal history and daily functioning.

Author: Sheehan, D.
Literature:
  • Sheehan, D. V. (1983). Sheehan Anxiety and Panic Attack Scales. Kalamazoo, MI: The Upjohn Company.
  • Sheehan, D. V. (1983). The Anxiety Disease. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
  • Sheehan, D. V., Raj, A. B., Sheehan, K. H., & Soto, S. (1988). The relative efficacy of buspirone, imipramine and placebo in panic disorder: A preliminary report. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 29(4), 815-817. 10.1016/0091-3057(88)90214-6
  • Davis, T. M. A., Ross, C. J., & MacDonald, G. F. (2002). Screening and assessing adult asthmatics for anxiety disorders. Clinical Nursing Research, 11(2), 173-189. 10.1177/105477380201100206

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