GAD-7 — anxiety
Seven items measuring generalised anxiety over the past two weeks, scored 0–21 across minimal, mild, moderate and severe bands.
Mental health assessments
Find out what you're actually dealing with — free
"Am I stressed, or is this something more?" is a hard question to answer alone. Validated screening instruments exist precisely because self-judgement is unreliable when you're in the middle of it.
Saantvana offers six published instruments used in clinical practice worldwide, translated across ten Indian languages, scored instantly and interpreted in plain language — with no cost and no obligation to book anything.
- Published, validated instruments
- Results private to you
- 10 Indian languages
The instruments we use
No invented quizzes. Every screener below is a published instrument with established scoring.
PHQ-9 — depression
Nine items covering low mood, interest, sleep, energy and self-harm risk, scored 0–27 with five severity bands.
DASS-21 — depression, anxiety, stress
Twenty-one items producing three separate subscale scores, each with its own severity threshold — useful when several things overlap.
WHO-5 — positive wellbeing
Five items measuring what is going right, reported as a 0–100 index rather than a symptom count.
Copenhagen Burnout Inventory
Nineteen items across personal, work-related and client-related burnout — the instrument behind our workplace reporting.
Sleep quality (PSQI-based)
A ten-item sleep screener covering latency, duration, efficiency and daytime dysfunction.
How screening works here
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Answer honestly
Most instruments take three to six minutes. There is no right answer and nothing to optimise.
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Get a scored result
You see your score, its severity band, what that band means, and what it does not mean.
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Get a next step
A matched wellness journey, relevant resources, and verified experts for that concern in your language.
Where your results go
- Your scores are visible only to you inside your account.
- Employers see aggregate cohort trends only, never an individual result.
- Assessment content is excluded from product analytics and session replay.
- You choose whether to share a result with an expert before a session.
- You can delete your assessment history from your account at any time.
Assessments — common questions
- Are these real clinical assessments?
- Yes. Saantvana uses published, validated instruments — GAD-7 for anxiety, PHQ-9 for depression, DASS-21 for depression, anxiety and stress, WHO-5 for positive wellbeing, the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory for burnout, and a PSQI-based screener for sleep quality.
- Is an assessment the same as a diagnosis?
- No. These are screening instruments. They indicate the likely severity of what you're experiencing and whether professional assessment is worth pursuing. Only a qualified clinician can diagnose.
- Do I have to pay to take one?
- No. Screening is free once you create an account, including your scored result and its interpretation.
- Can my employer see my score?
- Never. Employers only ever see aggregate, de-identified trends across cohorts large enough to protect anonymity. Individual scores are yours alone.
- What happens after I get a result?
- You get a plain-language interpretation, a recommended wellness journey matched to your result, and — where appropriate — verified experts who work with that concern in your language and location.
- Can I retake an assessment to track progress?
- Yes. Every result is stored in your private history so you can see movement over weeks and months, which is how clinical change is actually measured.
- What if my result suggests something serious?
- If your responses indicate risk — particularly on the PHQ-9 self-harm item — you are shown crisis resources for your region immediately, alongside a route to a human professional.
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Stop guessing
Six validated screeners, free, in your language — with a clear next step whatever the result.