What Sickness Do I Have Quiz

In about 10 minutes, the What Sickness Do I Have Quiz uses 15 questions to help you notice symptom patterns, daily impact, urgent warning signs, and relevant health contexts. Your result can support clearer self-reflection and help you decide how promptly to seek appropriate medical attention.

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How the Scales are Structured

Risk-Changing Health ContextsRCHC

This scale summarizes health contexts that may increase risk or change how quickly medical evaluation could be needed based on your current situation.

example score7/15

7/15Prompt guidance contextexample score

0No scored context

1 – 2Mention the context

3 – 15Prompt guidance context

A score of 7 falls in the “Prompt guidance context” range, indicating multiple risk-changing contexts were endorsed and may be important to share when discussing symptoms.

Symptom Course and Daily ImpactSCaDI

This scale summarizes how your symptoms are changing over time and how much they affect daily functioning and basic needs.

example score9/15

9/15Seek timely assessmentexample score

0No scored impact

1 – 2Track the pattern

3 – 15Seek timely assessment

A score of 9 falls in the “Seek timely assessment” range, indicating a higher reported day-to-day impact or concerning symptom course in this reflective summary.

Urgent Physical Warning SignsUPWS

This scale summarizes how many urgent physical warning signs you reported that may warrant prompt attention.

example score6/15

6/15Act promptlyexample score

0No scored response

1 – 2Check the concern

3 – 15Act promptly

A score of 6 falls in the “Act promptly” range, indicating you endorsed multiple urgent warning-sign items, though any single red-flag response matters independently of the total.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

Worried Symptom Checkers

41%OF USERS

People with new or unexplained symptoms who want help sorting what feels urgent versus what can be monitored before seeking care.

Parents and Caregivers

34%OF USERS

Adults checking symptoms for a child, partner, or older relative to decide how quickly to contact a clinician or urgent care.

Chronic Condition Managers

25%OF USERS

People with ongoing health issues who want a structured way to note changes, triggers, and daily impact before talking to a healthcare professional.

BASED ON AGGREGATED, ANONYMIZED DATA FROM TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FREUDLY USERS.

Benchmarking

See How You Compare

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

Risk-Changing Health ContextsRHC

You?

Average6.3

Typical rangeTypical3.7 – 8.9

Possible0 – 15

Symptom Course and Daily ImpactSCaDI

You?

Average10.1

Typical rangeTypical8 – 12.2

Possible0 – 15

Urgent Physical Warning SignsUPWS

You?

Average10.1

Typical rangeTypical7.8 – 12.4

Possible0 – 15

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

- I have no current pain that concerns me.
- The pain is mild, has a clear minor cause, and is improving.
- The pain is recurring, gradually worsening, or interfering with movement and concentration.
- The pain was sudden and severe, or occurs with fainting, a rigid abdomen, major weakness, or breathing difficulty.
- My sleep has not been affected.
- I had one mildly disrupted night but could return to sleep.
- Symptoms repeatedly wake me or have substantially reduced my sleep for several nights.
- Severe pain or breathing difficulty prevents sleep, or I am unusually difficult to wake.
- I have no unusual breathing difficulty, chest pressure, or chest pain.
- I notice mild breathlessness only with more exertion than usual, and it settles promptly with rest.
- I have new breathlessness during routine activity or recurring chest pressure that is not severe.
- I have severe trouble breathing, crushing chest pain, fainting, or blue or gray lips or skin.

These are 3 of the 15 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.

WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

What Sickness Do I Have Quiz - Description and methodology of the test

People facing unfamiliar or worrying symptoms can use the What Sickness Do I Have Quiz to organize what they are noticing and consider which details to communicate next. This illness quiz is intended for anyone who wants a structured first reflection rather than a disease label. Its result helps arrange observations into a clearer account for discussion with a healthcare professional.

What This Assessment Explores

Rather than naming conditions, it organizes experiences affecting urgency. Items address pain, breathing, hydration, bleeding, fever, rash, neurological changes, medicines, exposures, pregnancy, sleep, and daily function. By focusing on changing symptoms, the questionnaire considers what is happening, how it changes, and whether needs are affected.

The result presents three dimensions:

Risk-Changing Health Contexts (0-15) shows whether pregnancy, reduced immunity, exposure, or medication concerns may alter the next step: No scored context (0), Mention the context (1-2), or Prompt guidance context (3-15).
Symptom Course and Daily Impact (0-15) reflects persistence and functional effect: No scored impact (0), Track the pattern (1-2), or Seek timely assessment (3-15).
Urgent Physical Warning Signs (0-15) reflects severe or rapidly worsening concerns: No scored response (0), Check the concern (1-2), or Act promptly (3-15).

The summaries organize what to report and how promptly to act.

Methodology and Scientific Basis

Each question offers four ordered statements, moving from no concern or mild improvement to persistent or function-limiting symptoms and urgent warning signs. Respondents choose the statement closest to their current experience.

Responses are grouped across the displayed dimensions rather than converted into a disease label. Points assigned to choices are not specified, so the score ranges should not be reverse-engineered into a formula. A red-flag response matters independently of the total.

This structure helps a reader consider whether to seek medical advice based on timing, context, and changes in functioning.

Sutaria et al. (2025) support the emphasis on red flags; the questionnaire is conceptually consistent with the online tools discussed in this literature, not an adaptation or validated implementation of them. Semigran et al. (2015) and Wallace et al. (2022) show that digital self-diagnosis and triage tools vary in accuracy.

Its output is narrower than a disease-identification result: it organizes urgency-related patterns and context. The bands are unvalidated reflective summaries, and self-report is affected by circumstances, recall, and interpretation.

Literature:

Sutaria S, Devakumar D, Mallinson P, Kinra S, Malak TT, Meczner A. Evaluating the use of red flags by online symptom checkers. BMC Health Services Research. 2025;25:1263. 10.1186/s12913-025-13353-w
Semigran HL, Linder JA, Gidengil C, Mehrotra A. Evaluation of symptom checkers for self diagnosis and triage: audit study. BMJ. 2015;351:h3480. 10.1136/bmj.h3480
Wallace W, Chan C, Chidambaram S, Hanna L, Iqbal FM, Acharya A, Normahani P, Ashrafian H, Markar SR, Sounderajah V, Darzi A. The diagnostic and triage accuracy of digital and online symptom checker tools: a systematic review. npj Digital Medicine. 2022;5:118. 10.1038/s41746-022-00667-w

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