DASS21

INTELLEVRA PULSEX

Depression, Anxiety & Stress Screener

A standardized screening based on the DASS-21 questionnaire, widely used to gauge the frequency of common depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms over the last week.

For adults aged 18 and over

Your Symptoms 21 items · about 4 minutes

Please read each statement and select the response that indicates how much the statement applied to you over the past week. There are no right or wrong answers.

1. I found it hard to wind down

2. I was aware of dryness of my mouth

3. I couldn’t seem to experience any positive feeling at all

4. I experienced breathing difficulty (e.g. excessively rapid breathing, breathlessness in the absence of physical exertion)

5. I found it difficult to work up the initiative to do things

6. I tended to over-react to situations

7. I experienced trembling (e.g. in the hands)

8. I felt that I was using a lot of nervous energy

9. I was worried about situations in which I might panic and make a fool of myself

10. I felt that I had nothing to look forward to

11. I found myself getting agitated

12. I found it difficult to relax

13. I felt down-hearted and blue

14. I was intolerant of anything that kept me from getting on with what I was doing

15. I felt I was close to panic

16. I was unable to become enthusiastic about anything

17. I felt I wasn’t worth much as a person

18. I felt that I was rather touchy

19. I was aware of the action of my heart in the absence of physical exertion (e.g. sense of heart rate increase, heart missing a beat)

20. I felt scared without any good reason

21. I felt that life was meaningless

Your DASS-21 screening results

Depression

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Score: — (scaled from raw —)

Anxiety

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Score: — (scaled from raw —)

Stress

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Score: — (scaled from raw —)

DASS-21 raw subscale totals are conventionally multiplied by 2 so they can be compared against standard DASS severity ranges (as used in the full DASS-42).

Your item-by-item breakdown

Depression items

3. No positive feeling—

5. No initiative—

10. Nothing to look forward to—

13. Down-hearted and blue—

16. Unenthusiastic—

17. Not worth much—

21. Life meaningless—

Anxiety items

2. Dry mouth—

4. Breathing difficulty—

7. Trembling—

9. Fear of panic/embarrassment—

15. Close to panic—

19. Aware of heartbeat—

20. Scared without reason—

Stress items

1. Hard to wind down—

6. Over-reacting—

8. Nervous energy—

11. Agitated—

12. Hard to relax—

14. Intolerant of interruption—

18. Touchy—

Recommended next steps

If you are in crisis or having thoughts of harming yourself: please reach out right away. In the US, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline), available 24/7. Outside the US, contact your local emergency number or a crisis line in your country. This screener is not designed to assess for suicide risk.

Important: This tool provides an educational screening based on the standard DASS-21 questionnaire. It does not diagnose depression, an anxiety disorder, or any other mental health condition, and a single screening cannot capture everything going on in your life. Please share these results with a doctor, therapist, or other qualified healthcare professional, who can properly evaluate your symptoms and discuss next steps with you.