Symptom Assessment-45 Questionnaire

The Symptom Assessment-45 Questionnaire (SA-45)

The SA-45 is a quick (taking about 10 minutes) and comprehensive measure of psychiatric symptomatology, particularly useful in primary care settings.

Using a 5-point level-of-severity scale, the SA-45 measures:

An index of Global Severity and a Positive Symptom total also can be obtained from SA-45 results. These indices are helpful in assessing overall symptomatology.
 * Anxiety
 * Hostility
 * Obsessive-Compulsivity
 * Phobic anxiety
 * Somatization
 * Depression
 * Interpersonal sensitivity
 * Paranoid ideation
 * Psychoticism

Norms
Norms have been developed on the basis of a database of over 18,000 individuals, with group-specific data for males and females, inpatients and nonpatients, and adolescents and adults (ages 13 years and older).