Psychologists and social science researchers regularly encounter the challenge of harmonising questionnaire items like ‘I often feel anxious’ and ‘Feeling nervous, anxious or afraid’ found in standardised scales such as GAD-7 and PANAS. These instruments are used extensively to measure generalised anxiety disorder and affective states, respectively. The process of harmonising - comparing and aligning - can often be tedious, error-prone, and subjective. To maximise the full potential of comparative and longitudinal studies, understanding the relations and consistencies across these scales become imperative. Enter Harmony, an AI-powered software that uses advanced natural language processing to harmonise questionnaire items in these instruments. By using Harmony for GAD-7 vs PANAS, researchers can bypass the arduous manual task of constructing a comparative landscape and instead gain reliable, fast and comprehensive matches between these scales. Additionally, Harmony, unlike conventional methods, is capable of comparing instruments in several languages, further widening the scope of your research. To use Harmony in the context of GAD-7 vs PANAS, all you need to do is select GAD-7 and PANAS from Harmony’s extensive database or upload these instruments in PDF format on to Harmony’s user-friendly web interface. Harmony will then provide a percent match between each item, helping fill gap in our understanding of the relationship between generalised anxiety disorder and affective states. The ease, efficiency and accuracy provided by Harmony in comparing GAD-7 vs PANAS opens up exciting avenues for further research and insights within psychology and social sciences.
| No. | GAD-7 English |
|---|---|
| 1 | Feeling nervous, anxious, or on edge |
| 2 | Not being able to stop or control worrying |
| 3 | Worrying too much about different things |
| 4 | Trouble relaxing |
| 5 | Being so restless that it is hard to sit still |
| 6 | Becoming easily annoyed or irritable |
| 7 | Feeling afraid, as if something awful might happen |
| 8 | If you checked any problems, how difficult have they made it for you to do your work, take care of things at home, or get along with other people? |
