OPTIONAL TOOL · ADULTS 18+
A brief adult ADHD screener.
Use the official six-question ASRS v1.1 patient-facing screener, then return here to consider the wider pattern.
Already know you want to examine the wider pattern? Go straight to the ADHD reflection: interactive record
This is a screener, not a diagnosis. It cannot measure the severity of ADHD, explain the cause of any difficulties or replace a full clinical assessment. You can instead continue to the assessment routes.
ASRS v1.1 · PART A
Open the authorised patient-facing screener.
The six questions, answer shading and scoring instructions are supplied by the instrument’s licensors. ADHD Junction does not reproduce or score the instrument on this page.
Official external resource
Adult ADHD Self-Report Screener ASRS v1.1
On the NYU page, open the English patient-facing six-question screener. Its shaded blocks show the screening ranges. A result can suggest that further investigation may be worthwhile, but it cannot diagnose ADHD or rule it out.
Opens the authorised NYU resource in a new browser tab.
ABOUT THE INSTRUMENT
Use the result as a prompt, not a verdict.
The six-question Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale v1.1 Screener is Part A of the longer 18-question checklist. The authorised patient-facing version includes its own shaded scoring ranges. It is the ASRS v1.1, not the separate, later ASRS-5.
A screening result does not prove ADHD, measure its severity or explain what is causing a difficulty. A result below the screening threshold does not rule ADHD out.
Instrument and source
The 6-question Adult Self-Report Scale-Version1.1 (ASRS-V1.1) Screener is a subset of the 18-question Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale-Version1.1 (Adult ASRSV1.1) Symptom Checklist. © New York University and the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Developed by Lenard Adler, MD (New York University), and Ronald C. Kessler, PhD (Harvard). The NYU licensing page supplies the authorised patient-facing version, attribution and conditions of use.
NYU: instrument, conditions of use and patient-facing version
Kessler, R. C. et al. (2005). The World Health Organization Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS): a short screening scale for use in the general population. Psychological Medicine, 35(2), 245–256.