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Scoring accuracy audit

Where every instrument in the catalogue stands against its published scoring source: verified with citations, set by ClientForms, or still awaiting source verification. This page is generated from the same configuration the product runs on, so it always shows what actually ships.

Why this page exists

In August 2026 a review of the scoring engine found a defect affecting seven instruments. Many questionnaires include reverse-scored questions, where disagreeing is the healthy answer, and scoring is supposed to flip those before adding them up. For those seven instruments the engine was not applying the flip, so affected totals differed from the instrument's published scoring method. One instrument (SPANE) totalled its positive and negative scores where the published method subtracts them.

The same review found interpretation labels that overstated their provenance: some ranges authored by ClientForms displayed under a generic "published band" phrase. Every interpretation label now states its source explicitly: "published band" only appears with the citation, ClientForms ranges say so plainly, and anything still awaiting verification makes no claim at all.

Corrections went live in production within a day of being found. The engine now applies reverse scoring correctly, verified question by question against each instrument's official published scoring key. Every affected historical result was recalculated: we store the raw answers, so history could be corrected, not just the future. The fix was proven end to end by submitting questionnaires with known correct answers through the live product in both hosting regions and getting exactly the textbook results.

Rather than treat that as closed and move on, we are publishing the audit itself. This page is the standing record.

Is the score itself accurate?

A result has two layers, and this page audits them separately. The first layer is the score: direct arithmetic on the person's answers, computed by the scoring engine using the instrument's configured method (a sum, a mean, or the instrument's own formula). The second layer is the interpretation shown next to it: severity ranges, cut-offs, and their labels.

The score layer is protected by checks that apply to every instrument in the catalogue, not only the verified rows below:

  • in August 2026, every deployed questionnaire on the platform was checked for the reverse-scoring defect class described above, and seven instruments were corrected. The deeper instrument-by-instrument audit this page records later found three more (ES-16, SRS-3-B and PSRS) whose published reverse scoring was missing from, or not honoured by, our configuration; each was corrected on discovery and affected results were recalculated
  • the scoring output of every instrument in the catalogue is locked by an automated snapshot suite: any change to any score, on any instrument, fails the test run until the change is deliberately reviewed
  • a standing guard test fails if any instrument declares reverse-scored questions the engine is not honouring, or reverses a question twice. That guard can only check reversals the configuration declares; finding a key omitted altogether requires the instrument-by-instrument source review this page records

"Awaiting source verification" is about the second layer only: whether the interpretation ranges shown beside a score have been compared, edge for edge, against the instrument's primary published source. A row still in that queue does not mean its score is suspect; it means the citation-level check on its interpretive labelling has not run yet, so the result makes no provenance claim in the meantime.

How verification works

An instrument earns "verified" status here only when its interpretation cut-offs have been compared edge for edge against the primary published source: the instrument developer's own paper, manual, or scoring materials, wherever one is retrievable. Where only a peer-reviewed secondary source could be obtained, the instrument's row says so. Where an instrument publishes no cut-offs, our interpretive ranges say plainly that ClientForms set them. Everything else is marked awaiting source verification and makes no claim in either direction.

The status is then held in place mechanically. A standing test fails the build if any interpretation range is labelled "published" without its citation, the production build refuses to ship on any type error, and the table below is generated from the live scoring configuration rather than written by hand, so it cannot drift from what the product does.

The catalogue at a glance

62
verified against the published source, with citation
91
ClientForms interpretive ranges, where the instrument publishes no cut-offs
113
awaiting source verification, shown neutrally

266 instruments in total. The audit proceeds instrument by instrument, most-used first; a row moves up only when its cut-offs match the primary source exactly. Where our ranges differ from a published structure, the row stays neutral until the difference is resolved, never silently relabelled.

Verified against the published source

Interpretation cut-offs match the cited source exactly. Where the instrument uses reverse-scored questions, the scoring key was also checked item by item.

AQ-10 Autism Spectrum Quotient (Short Form)

Published bands: Allison, Auyeung & Baron-Cohen (2012)

AUDIT Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test

Published bands: Babor, Higgins-Biddle, Saunders & Monteiro (2001), WHO AUDIT manual 2nd ed.

Autism Spectrum Quotient – Adolescent (AQ-Adolescent)

Published bands: Autism Research Centre, 'The Adolescent Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ) Ages 12-15 years: Scoring Key'; Baron-Cohen, Hoekstra, Knickmeyer & Wheelwright (2006), J Autism Dev Disord 36:343-350 — critical minimum 30+

Autism Spectrum Quotient – Children's Version (AQ-Child)

Published bands: Auyeung, Baron-Cohen, Wheelwright & Allison (2008), 'The Autism Spectrum Quotient: Children's Version (AQ-Child)', J Autism Dev Disord 38:1230-1240 — cut-off 76 (sensitivity 95%, specificity 95%)

Borderline Symptom List-23 (BSL-23)

Published bands: Kleindienst, Jungkunz and Bohus (2020; Correction 2022), Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation — six severity grades for the BSL-23 mean score

Brief Resilience Scale (BRS)

Published bands: Smith, Dalen, Wiggins et al. (2008), International Journal of Behavioral Medicine 15(3), 194-200

Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale for Children (CES-DC)

Published bands: Weissman, Orvaschel & Padian (1980); validated in Fendrich, Weissman & Warner (1990), Am J Epidemiology 131(3):538-551 ("A cutoff point of 15 and above ... may be optimal"). Distribution/scoring sheet: Bright Futures in Practice: Mental Health — Tool for Professionals, Georgetown NCEMCH, pp. 57-58: "the developers of the CES-DC, have used the cutoff score of 15 as being suggestive of depressive symptoms in children and adolescents."

Child Dissociative Checklist (CDC)

Published bands: Putnam FW, Child Dissociative Checklist — the >=12 cut-off, which our 0-11 / 12-40 split matches exactly. CAVEAT recorded at the gate: the quote reaching this ruling is a peer-reviewed SECONDARY source citing Putnam (1997); no steward-hosted CDC form or book text was retrievable by the B7 pass (2026-08-05). Downgrade to descriptive if first-party provenance is required. Note also that the CDC is OBSERVER-rated (caregiver/teacher) and its deployed item wording is correctly third-person — it must never be routed to the child.

Childhood Autism Spectrum Test (CAST)

Published bands: Autism Research Centre (Baron-Cohen), CAST scoring key, verbatim: "ASD relevant responses are underlined and score '1'. Maximum score possible is 31, cut-off currently is 15 for possible ASD or related social-communication difficulties. Questions that are not underlined are controls." Accuracy at cut-point 15: sensitivity 100%, specificity 97% (Williams et al. 2005, Autism 9(1):45-68). B7 Z4 verified the questionFieldMap covers exactly 31 items and excludes the six controls {3,4,12,22,26,33}. NOTE the three-band 15+/12-14/<12 split in Williams et al. is a SAMPLING STRATIFICATION for who was invited to diagnostic assessment, not a severity scheme.

Clinical Impairment Assessment (CIA)

Published bands: Bohn et al. (2008), Behaviour Research and Therapy 46(10), 1105-1110, via the CIA 3.0 instructions (CREDO Oxford) — best cut-point 16 for predicting eating disorder case status

Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation (CORE-10)

Published bands: Barkham et al. (2013)

Couples Satisfaction Index (CSI-16)

Published bands: Rogge Lab (Couples Research, University of Rochester), official CSI-16 handout, "INTERPRETATION" section: "CSI-16 scores can range from 0 to 81 ... CSI-16 scores falling below 51.5 suggest notable relationship dissatisfaction." Instrument per Funk & Rogge (2007), Journal of Family Psychology, 21, 572-583.

Depression Anxiety Stress Scales - 42 (DASS-42)

Published bands: Lovibond & Lovibond (1995)

Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS-21)

Published bands: Lovibond & Lovibond (1995)

Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST-10)

Published bands: Skinner (1982); DAST Interpretation Guide (ARF/CAMH)
  • The developer describes these interpretation bands as tentative guidelines.

Drug Use Disorders Identification Test (DUDIT)

Published bands: Berman, Bergman, Palmstierna & Schlyter (2003), DUDIT Manual v1.0, Karolinska Institutet, section 3 "Evaluation" and Appendix 3: "we suggest that men with drug-related problems be identified at a cut-off score of 6 or more. Women with drug-related problems are identified at a cut-off score of 2 points or more" and "the cut-off score for drug dependence ... is 25 points". The manual states the cut-offs "are highly preliminary".

Eating Attitudes Test-26 (EAT-26)

Published bands: Garner, Olmsted, Bohr & Garfinkel (1982)

Eczema Area and Severity Index (EASI)

Published bands: Leshem, Hanifin, Simpson et al. (2015), Br J Dermatol 172(5):1353-1357, verbatim: "0 = clear; 0.1-1.0 = almost clear; 1.1-7.0 = mild; 7.1-21.0 = moderate; 21.1-50.0 = severe; 50.1-72.0 = very severe". Re-verified from the paper's own results text 2026-08-06. (Chopra et al. 2017 publish an alternative four-band set; the steward endorses neither over the other — Leshem is the interpretability study our edges reproduce exactly.)

Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS)

Published bands: Cox, Holden & Sagovsky (1987)
  • Bands encode the developer screening thresholds (9/10 and 12/13); the developers advise the scale shows symptoms are present, not their severity.

Empathy Quotient (EQ-40)

Published bands: Baron-Cohen & Wheelwright (2004), Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 34(2), 163-175 — cut-off "equal to or fewer than 30 points" (81.1% of AS/HFA adults at or below, versus 12.2% of controls)

Scoring key checked item by item against Baron-Cohen & Wheelwright (2004) appendix and scoring instructions; Lawrence et al. (2004) for the subscales on 2026-08-03. Our 40 items are the paper’s 40 scored empathy items in published relative order (the 20 fillers are omitted), matched by item text at every position; all 21 agree-scored and 19 disagree-scored directions match the published key exactly, embedded in the choice values. All three subscale item maps match the Lawrence et al. (2004) factor solution at deployed positions.

Extreme Demand Avoidance – 8 (EDA-8)

Published bands: PDA Society, official EDA-8 form and scoring block (O'Nions, Christie, Gould, Viding & Happe), verbatim: "Scores over 19 could indicate the need for more in-depth measurement of EDA, but do not necessarily suggest a PDA-profile." The steward also states "the EDA-8 was designed to measure EDA traits for research purposes, and is not a diagnostic instrument". Key reference: O'Nions et al. (2021), Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders 5:269-281.

Fatigue Assessment Scale (FAS)

Published bands: Michielsen et al. — the published FAS thresholds (<22 / 22-34 / >=35)

Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS)

Published bands: Krupp LB et al. (1995), Neurology 45:1956-61 — the >=4 mean cut-off (the 1989 paper contains no cut-off, and is often mis-cited for it). Because 36 = 4 x 9, >=36 on the 9-63 sum is the SAME threshold, not a second one. B7 Z4 dropped the >=5 "severe" third band: the <36/36-52/>52 scheme derives only its 35/36 edge from the published cut-off, and the competing <=4.0/4.0-5.0/>=5.0 variant is internally inconsistent (it places exactly 4.0 in "non-fatigue" where Krupp makes >=4 fatigued). Floor is 1, not 0 — items are 1-7.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7)

Published bands: Spitzer, Kroenke, Williams & Löwe (2006)

Geriatric Depression Scale - Short Form (GDS-15)

Published bands: Sheikh & Yesavage (1986); Yesavage GDS scoring materials

Impact of Event Scale - Revised (IES-R)

Published bands: Creamer, Bell and Failla (2003), Behaviour Research and Therapy 41(12), 1489-1496 — research cut-off of 33 (mean 1.5) for probable PTSD; the instrument developers publish subscale means, not total-score bands
  • The cut-off of 33 is a research finding from a validation study, not a developer threshold; the instrument developers publish subscale means only.

Insomnia Severity Index (ISI)

Published bands: Morin CM, Belleville G, Belanger L, Ivers H (2011), Sleep 34(5):601-608, verbatim band labels: "absence of insomnia (0-7)", "sub-threshold insomnia (8-14)", "moderate insomnia (15-21)", "severe insomnia (22-28)". Morin separately publishes detection cut-offs of >=10 in community samples and >=11 in clinical samples; those are sample-specific operating characteristics and are not applied as bands here.

International Trauma Questionnaire – Child and Adolescent (ITQ-CA)

Published bands: Cloitre et al. — International Trauma Questionnaire, Child and Adolescent version (ITQ-CA). Algorithm as stated in the ITQ-CA validation literature: endorsement is "Moderately" (2) or above; PTSD caseness requires ≥1 endorsed symptom in each of the three PTSD clusters plus functional impairment; C-PTSD requires PTSD caseness plus ≥1 endorsed symptom in each of the three DSO clusters. Per ICD-11 the two are mutually exclusive.

International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ)

Published bands: Cloitre et al. (2018), Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 138(6), 536-546 — the ICD-11 PTSD / Complex PTSD diagnostic algorithm for the optimized ITQ

IPSS (Prostate Symptoms)

Published bands: International Prostate Symptom Score — the 0-7 mild / 8-19 moderate / 20-35 severe scheme, quoted from the EAU guideline because the AUA page returns 403. Verified as MATCHING our deployment by the B7 psychology/GP research pass, 2026-08-05.

Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10)

Published bands: Andrews & Slade (2001)

Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K5)

Published bands: NATSIHS categories, as reported in Nasir et al. (2021), BMC Public Health 21:1111

Kessler Psychological Distress Scale Plus (K10+)

Published bands: AMHOCN Kessler-10 Training Manual (2005), scoring and interpretation: 10-19 / 20-24 / 25-29 / 30-50 on the K10 item 1-10 total. This is the CRUfAD/specialist mental-health-services convention derived from the Andrews and Slade (2001) NSMHWB analyses; same table as our K10 row. Re-verified 2026-08-06.

Leeds Dependence Questionnaire (LDQ)

Published bands: Raistrick et al. (1994) — the LDQ graded-intensity bands (<=10 / 11-20 / >20)

McLean Screening Instrument for BPD (MSI-BPD)

Published bands: Zanarini et al. (2003), Journal of Personality Disorders 17(6), 568-573 — cut-off of 7 or more of the 10 items (sensitivity .81, specificity .85)

Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ)

Published bands: Hirschfeld et al. (2000), American Journal of Psychiatry 157(11), 1873-1875 — positive screen requires 7 or more of the 13 symptom items, symptom co-occurrence, and moderate or serious impairment

MRS (Menopause Rating Scale)

Published bands: Heinemann LAJ et al., the Menopause Rating Scale — the steward-published severity ladder on the 0-44 sum (0-4 none/little, 5-8 mild, 9-16 moderate, 17+ severe). Verified as MATCHING our deployment by the B7 psychology/GP research pass, 2026-08-05; the source was read by that pass and not re-read independently at this gate.

Neck Disability Index (NDI)

Published bands: Vernon H & Mior S (1991), J Manipulative Physiol Ther 14:409-415. Bands sit on the RAW 0-50 scale: no disability 0-4, mild 5-14, moderate 15-24, severe 25-34, complete >=35. The percentage form (x2) is published as 0-8% / 10-28% / 30-48% / 50-68% / >68%. B7 Z4 confirmed our table is on the raw scale — applying the raw edges to a percentage, or the reverse, is a factor-of-2 error.

Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory - Revised (OCI-R)

Published bands: Abramovitch, Abramowitz, Riemann and McKay (2020), Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders 27, 100557 — empirically derived severity benchmarks for the OCI-R total (an independent research benchmark, not a developer table)
  • The severity benchmarks come from an independent research team, empirically derived against the Y-BOCS; the instrument developers publish screening cut-offs, not severity ranges.

Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS)

Published bands: Sullivan, M.J.L., PCS: The Pain Catastrophizing Scale — User Manual (McGill University), section "Interpretation of PCS Scores: Clinical Samples", verbatim: "a total PCS score of 30 represents clinically relevant level of catastrophizing. A total PCS score of 30 corresponds to the 75th percentile of the distribution of PCS scores in clinic samples of chronic pain patients", and "Individuals who score between the 50th and 75th percentiles on the PCS are considered at moderate risk for the development of chronicity." The 50th percentile = a total of 20 per Appendix A. Original: Sullivan, Bishop & Pivik (1995), Psychological Assessment 7:524-532.

Pain Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (PSEQ)

Published bands: ePPOC (electronic Persistent Pain Outcomes Collaboration, AHSRI, University of Wollongong), ePPOC Clinical Reference Manual AU V2.0, 25/09/2023, pp. 27-28, verbatim: "The severity levels for the PSEQ are: <20 = severe; 20-30 = moderate; 31-40 = mild; >40 = minimal." These are ePPOC's levels, NOT the instrument developer's — Nicholas publishes no cut-offs, and the ">=40/<=16 (Nicholas 2007)" pairing in wide circulation is a false attribution traceable to a trial protocol. ePPOC itself cites Nicholas 1989 (a conference paper) and, for its 7-point change rule, a personal communication.

Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9)

Published bands: Kroenke, Spitzer & Williams (2001)

Patient-Oriented SCORAD (PO-SCORAD)

Published bands: Pierre Fabre Eczema Foundation (instrument steward), PO-SCORAD patient document: "PO-SCORAD < 25: MILD ECZEMA / BETWEEN 25 AND 50: MODERATE / > 50: SEVERE"; boundary sides encoded per the ETFAD/EADV 2020 SCORAD convention (mild <25, moderate >=25 and <50, severe >=50; Wollenberg et al., JEADV 34:2717-2744).

Pediatric Symptom Checklist-17 (PSC-17)

Published bands: Massachusetts General Hospital, Pediatric Symptom Checklist steward page and PSC-17 form: "PSC-17-Parent & PSC-17-Youth: >= 15" and "a total cut-off score of 15 is recommended" (re-verified at MGH 2026-08-06, edge inclusive). PSC ©1988 Jellinek & Murphy; the PSC-17 itself was "created by W. Gardner & K. Kelleher" (MGH form footer) — derivation Gardner et al. (1999), Ambulatory Child Health 5(3).

Personal Wellbeing Index - Adult (PWI-A)

Published bands: International Wellbeing Group (2013), Personal Wellbeing Index – Adult, 5th ed., Australian Centre on Quality of Life, Deakin University — §5.3(a) "The Australian normative range for individuals is 50-100 points", and Appendix E Table E1 (N=55,764; mean 75.25, SD 12.45; −2SD = 50.35).

Problem Gambling Severity Index (PGSI)

Published bands: Ferris, J. & Wynne, H. (2001), The Canadian Problem Gambling Index: Final Report, Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, section 4.5 "Final Version of the CPGI", verbatim: "Scores for the nine items are summed, and the results are interpreted as follows: 0 = non-problem; 1-2 = low risk; 3-7 = moderate risk; 8 + (to maximum of 27) = problem gambling." Note Currie, Hodgins & Casey (2013), J Gambling Studies 29(2):311-327, argue the low- and moderate-risk categories show poor discriminant validity and propose a revision; that revision is NOT adopted here and its specific edges are unverified against the primary.

PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5)

Published bands: Blevins et al. (2015); Bovin et al. (2016); NCPTSD guidance
  • The instrument steward publishes no severity ranges; the bands encode the provisional diagnostic cut-point only.

Regensburg Insomnia Scale (RIS)

Published bands: Crönlein et al. (2013), Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 11:65 — 0-12 normal, above 12 indicative of psychophysiological insomnia symptoms (sensitivity 97.7%, specificity 97.9%)

Ritvo Autism Asperger Diagnostic Scale-Revised (RAADS-R)

Published bands: Ritvo et al. (2011), Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 41(8), 1076-1089 — ROC-derived threshold of 65 (sensitivity 97%, specificity 100%)

Scoring key checked item by item against Ritvo et al. (2011), the published scale and scoring instructions (Appendices 1 and 2, open access) on 2026-08-03. All 80 item texts and their order matched (a few items carry Australian spelling); the 17 reverse-scored normative items match the published asterisked set exactly; all four subscale item maps are exact.

Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS)

Published bands: Diener E, Understanding Scores on the Satisfaction with Life Scale (2006)

SCOFF Eating Disorder Screening Questionnaire

Published bands: Morgan, Reid & Lacey (1999)

SCORing Atopic Dermatitis (SCORAD)

Published bands: Kunz et al. (1997), Dermatology 195:10-19 (ETFAD consensus), as stated with explicit edges in the ETFAD/EADV position paper 2020 (Wollenberg et al., JEADV 34:2717-2744): mild <25, moderate >=25 and <50, severe >=50.

Screen for Child Anxiety Related Disorders – Parent (SCARED-Parent)

Published bands: Birmaher et al., SCARED-Parent scoring sheet (University of Pittsburgh, pediatricbipolar.pitt.edu), scoring section: "A total score of >= 25 may indicate the presence of an Anxiety Disorder. Scores higher than 30 are more specific." Derivation: Birmaher et al. (1999), J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry.

Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED Child)

Published bands: Birmaher, Brent, Chiappetta, Bridge, Monga & Baugher (1999), J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 38(10), 1230-6 — as printed on the developers' own scoring page (SCARED CHILD version, University of Pittsburgh, distributed at pediatricbipolar.pitt.edu): "A total score of ≥ 25 may indicate the presence of an Anxiety Disorder. Scores higher than 30 are more specific."

Self-Compassion Scale - Short Form (SCS-SF)

Published bands: Neff, official SCS-SF scoring and norms document (self-compassion.org), section "NORMS AND SCORE SIGNIFICANCE", verbatim: "There are no clinical norms or scores which indicate that an individual is high or low in self-compassion ... As an ad hoc rubric, however, you can consider scores 1.0-2.49 to be low, between 2.5-3.5 to be moderate, and 3.51-5.0 to be high." B7 Z3 verified this passage appears word-for-word in BOTH the short-form and long-form documents, so it is stated for the SF and not borrowed. These edges (2.49/3.51) partition cleanly; the looser 1-2.5/2.5-3.5/3.5-5 wording on Neff’s public test page overlaps and is not used. The rubric is the developer’s own but explicitly ad hoc, not a validated severity table. Instrument: Raes, Pommier, Neff and Van Gucht (2011).
  • The developers describe the low, moderate and high ranges as an ad hoc rubric; no clinical norms exist.

Self-Compassion Scale — Short Form (SCS-SF)

Published bands: Neff, official SCS-SF scoring and norms document (self-compassion.org; instrument per Raes, Pommier, Neff and Van Gucht 2011) — the developer rubric 1-2.49 low, 2.5-3.5 moderate, 3.51-5 high
  • The developers describe the low, moderate and high ranges as an ad hoc rubric; no clinical norms exist.

Short Falls Efficacy Scale – International (Short FES-I)

Published bands: Kempen GIJM et al. (2008), Age and Ageing 37:45-50 — the ProFaNE/Manchester Short FES-I categories on the 7-28 range: 7-8 low concern, 9-13 moderate concern, 14-28 high concern. B7 2026-08-05 CORRECTED: we asserted 7-10 / 11-16 / 17-28, which are invented edges rather than a rounding difference and are NOT the full FES_I table ported across (that scheme is 16-19 / 20-27 / 28-64 on a different range, and is correct). The error also reached the PUBLIC free-test page, which needs no account: its explainer stated the published edges while the result it showed the visitor read "score <= 10 -> little concern ... This is reassuring", so a 9 or 10 — moderate concern — was reported as reassuring on an instrument whose purpose is catching activity avoidance early.

Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)

Published bands: Goodman (1997); youthinmind SDQ scoring, parent 4-17
  • Bands are the developer table for the parent-completed version, ages 4 to 17.

Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI)

Published bands: Newman et al., Tinnitus Handicap Inventory — the five published grades on the 0-100 sum (0-16 slight, 18-36 mild, 38-56 moderate, 58-76 severe, 78-100 catastrophic; our edges close the gaps between the published even-numbered steps). Verified as MATCHING by the B7 psychology/GP research pass, 2026-08-05.

Traumatic Grief Inventory – Self Report Plus (TGI-SR+)

Published bands: Lenferink LIM, Eisma MC, Smid GE, de Keijser J, Boelen PA (2022), Comprehensive Psychiatry 112:152281 — the DSM-5-TR prolonged grief disorder cut-off of >=71 on the 22-item TGI-SR+ total (range 22-110). NOTE this is the TGI-SR PLUS: the 18-item TGI-SR uses ">61" on a different total (17-85), and the two are not interchangeable. The same paper cuts DSM-5 PCBD and ICD-11 PGD at >=75 on this total, so this band adopts the DSM-5-TR criteria set specifically. Cross-cultural re-derivations (German >=60/>=65, Peruvian >=70/>=76, Japanese >=74/>=71) are population-specific and are not mixed in.

WHO-5 Well-Being Index

Published bands: WHO-5 official guidance (WHO 2024); Topp et al. (2015)
  • Higher scores mean better wellbeing; the published threshold is a screen, not a severity gradient.

Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale (ZUNG)

Published bands: Zung (1965); SDS Index cut-offs applied via raw × 1.25

ClientForms interpretive ranges

These instruments publish no interpretation cut-offs. A bare number is hard to place, so where the developer defines no thresholds we provide descriptive orientation ranges over the instrument's score range. Where a published structure exists we adopt that instead; that is what the verified section above is.

The trust claim for these ranges is deliberately small. Each one is labelled "set by ClientForms" on every report, so it can never be mistaken for the developer's thresholds; it describes where a score sits, it does not diagnose; and the clinical interpretation stays with the practitioner reading it. Several of these instruments also had their scoring keys verified item by item during the August 2026 audit; those checks are noted below.

Acceptance and Action Questionnaire - II (AAQ-II)

Ranges set by ClientForms

Action Research Arm Test (ARAT)

Ranges set by ClientForms

ADHD Clinical Outcome Scale – Clinician (ACOS-Clinician)

Ranges set by ClientForms
  • Withdrawn from send menus while the item set and score ranges are checked against the published instrument.

ADHD Clinical Outcome Scale – Self-Report (ACOS-Self)

Ranges set by ClientForms
  • Withdrawn from send menus while the item set and score ranges are checked against the published instrument.

ADHD Clinical Outcome Scale – Self-Report (ACOS-Self)

Ranges set by ClientForms

ADHD-FIS (Functional Impact Scale)

Ranges set by ClientForms

Adolescent Dissociative Experiences Scale (A-DES)

Ranges set by ClientForms

Adult Separation Anxiety Questionnaire (ASA-27)

Ranges set by ClientForms

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Questionnaire

Ranges set by ClientForms

Adverse Childhood Experiences Questionnaire (ACE-Q)

Ranges set by ClientForms

Agnew Relationship Measure (ARM-5)

Ranges set by ClientForms

Alcohol Use (AUDIT-C)

Ranges set by ClientForms

AMS (Aging Males' Symptoms)

Ranges set by ClientForms

Appearance Anxiety Inventory (AAI)

Ranges set by ClientForms

Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire - Believability (ATQ-B)

Ranges set by ClientForms

Benevolent Childhood Experiences (BCEs) Scale

Ranges set by ClientForms

Berg Balance Scale (BBS)

Ranges set by ClientForms

Brief COPE

Ranges set by ClientForms

Brief Experiential Avoidance Questionnaire (BEAQ)

Ranges set by ClientForms

Brief Perceived Partner Responsiveness

Ranges set by ClientForms

Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire (CAT-Q)

Ranges set by ClientForms

Chedoke Arm and Hand Activity Inventory (CAHAI-13)

Ranges set by ClientForms

Children's Eating Attitudes Test (ChEAT)

Ranges set by ClientForms

Cognitive Flexibility Inventory (CFI)

Ranges set by ClientForms

Composite Caregiving Questionnaire (CCQ)

Ranges set by ClientForms

Comprehensive Autistic Trait Inventory (CATI)

Ranges set by ClientForms

Scoring key checked item by item against English et al. (2021) official scoring key (Additional file 2) on 2026-08-02. Reverse key and subscale layout are exact. Scoring key only: our item wording deviates from the published items (see flags).

  • Item wording is a platform adaptation rather than the verbatim published items.
  • Superseded on 2026-08-03 by a verbatim re-issue; results recorded under this version stay viewable against the wording that was answered.

Comprehensive Autistic Trait Inventory (CATI)

Ranges set by ClientForms

Scoring key checked item by item against English et al. (2021) official CATI v1 form and scoring key (Additional file 2) on 2026-08-03. All 42 item texts, the published administration order, the 5-point response scale, the five reverse-scored items (embedded in choice values) and all six subscale item maps match the published scoring key exactly.

CORE-OM Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation

Ranges set by ClientForms

Cyber Pornography Use Inventory (CPUI-9)

Ranges set by ClientForms

Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS-10)

Ranges set by ClientForms

Developmental Coordination Disorder Questionnaire (DCDQ'07)

Ranges set by ClientForms

Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS-16)

Ranges set by ClientForms

Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS-36)

Ranges set by ClientForms

Scoring key checked item by item against Gratz and Roemer (2004) on 2026-08-02. Word-for-word item match; the 11-item reverse key is exact.

  • Scoring key verified, but this instrument is not currently offered in any send menu.

Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q 6.0)

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Eating Disorder-15 (ED-15)

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Equanimity Scale (ES-16)

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Scoring key checked item by item against The official ES-16 form published by the MiCBT Institute (the developer’s own scoring instructions) on 2026-08-05. The developer’s form states that items 5, 6, 7, 10, 12, 14, 15 and 16 are reverse scored. The deployed questionnaire is straight-keyed on its 1 to 5 scale, so the reversal is applied by the scoring engine; the eight-item key matches the developer’s instructions exactly.

Executive Skills Questionnaire - Revised (ESQ-R)

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Experience in Close Relationships Scale - Short Form (ECR-S)

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Scoring key checked item by item against Wei et al. (2007) appendix on 2026-08-02. The reverse key is exact (items 1, 5, 8 and 9).

Experiences in Close Relationships-Revised (ECR-R)

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Scoring key checked item by item against ECR-R item key hosted by the instrument author (Fraley) on 2026-08-02. The 14-item reverse key is exact (attachment anxiety items 9 and 11 plus 12 avoidance items).

Fugl-Meyer Assessment — Upper Extremity (FMA-UE)

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General Behaviour Inventory

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General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSE)

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Girls Questionnaire for Autism Spectrum Conditions (GQ-ASC)

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Indigenous Risk Impact Screen (IRIS)

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Internal State Scale (ISS)

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International Personality Item Pool - NEO - 120 item version (IPIP-NEO-120)

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Scoring key checked item by item against Official IPIP-NEO facet scoring key (ipip.ori.org) on 2026-08-02. All 120 item texts matched; the 55-item reverse key is exact; canonical Johnson item order confirmed.

Internet Addiction Test (IAT)

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Katz Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living (Katz ADL)

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Life Orientation Test - Revised (LOT-R)

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Life Skills Profile (LSP-16)

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  • The validated administration method is rating by the treating practitioner or another informed observer.
  • Withdrawn from send menus until a practitioner completion pathway is available.

Lower Extremity Functional Scale (LEFS)

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Maladaptive Schema Scale

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Scoring key checked item by item against MSS v1.4 published questionnaire and the Buchanan et al. validation paper on 2026-08-02. The 17-item reverse key is exact. Scoring key only: the published response scale differs from ours (see flags).

  • Uses a 1 to 6 response scale where the published instrument uses 0 to 4, so published thresholds do not transfer.
  • Withdrawn from send menus until it is re-issued on the published scale.

Male Depression Risk Scale (MDRS-22)

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Mood and Feelings Questionnaire - Self Report (MFQ-Self)

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Mood and Feelings Questionnaire – Parent Report (MFQ-Parent)

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Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness - Version 2 (MAIA-2)

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Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness – Youth (MAIA-Y)

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Nottingham Extended Activities of Daily Living Scale (NEADL)

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Numeric Pain Rating Scale (NPRS)

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Obsessional Compulsive Inventory – Revised Parent (ChOCI-R-P)

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Oldenburg Burnout Inventory (OLBI)

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Opioid Risk Tool (ORT)

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Panic Disorder Severity Scale (PDSS)

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  • Published interpretation tables are conditional on agoraphobia status, which this form does not collect; ranges shown are set by ClientForms.

Patient-Rated Wrist/Hand Evaluation (PRWHE)

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Patient-Specific Functional Scale (PSFS)

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PC-PTSD-5 (Trauma screen)

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Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ)

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Perceived Relationship Quality Components (PRQC)

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Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10)

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Personality Inventory for DSM-5 - Faceted Brief Form (PID-5-FBF, 100 item)

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Preschool Anxiety Scale (PAS)

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QuickDASH (Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand — Short)

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Reintegration to Normal Living Index (RNLI)

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Relationship Assessment Scale

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Relationship Flourishing Scale (RFS)

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Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale – Parent (RCADS-Parent)

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Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS-Child)

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Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES)

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Scale of Positive and Negative Experience (SPANE)

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Scoring key checked item by item against Diener et al. (2010) on 2026-08-02. Balance formula (SPANE-B = positive minus negative), score ranges, item membership and item order all confirmed.

Session Reactions Scale (SRS-3-B)

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Scoring key checked item by item against Řiháček et al. (2023) published scoring key and Řiháček & Cviková (2026) on 2026-08-05. The published total reverses the four hindering-reaction items (5, 8, 10 and 12); the engine now applies that reversal and the two subscale item maps match the published key, including item 3’s placement in the brief form.

Spence Children's Anxiety Scale – Parent (SCAS-Parent)

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Spence Children's Anxiety Scale (SCAS-Child)

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Tampa Scale of Kinesiophobia — Short Form (TSK-11)

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Tampa Scale of Kinesiophobia (TSK)

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Tinetti Performance-Oriented Mobility Assessment (POMA)

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Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20)

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Trust in Close Relationships Scale

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Upper Extremity Functional Index (UEFI)

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Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS)

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WFIRS - Self Report

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Scoring key checked item by item against Weiss Functional Impairment Rating Scale – Self Report, the official CADDRA-hosted form on 2026-08-03. All 69 item texts, the seven-domain structure and order, the response anchors and the not-applicable option match the published form exactly; domain means exclude items marked not applicable, as published.

Young Person's CORE (YP-CORE)

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Awaiting source verification

The scores for these instruments are covered by the platform-wide checks under "Is the score itself accurate?": computed by the same engine as everything above, swept for the reverse-scoring defect class in August 2026, and locked by the snapshot suite so no score can change without a test catching it. What has not yet happened is the citation-level comparison of interpretation cut-offs against each instrument's primary source. Until that check runs, their results render neutrally: scores and any configured ranges are shown without a provenance claim in either direction. Listing them plainly is part of the point; this section is expected to shrink.

Show all 113 instruments awaiting source verification
  • 5-D Itch Scale
  • 6-Item Stigmatization Scale
  • Activities-Specific Balance Confidence Scale (ABC)
  • ADAM (Low Testosterone Screen)
  • ADHD Emotional Sensitivity Screener (RSD-15)
  • Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS-v1.1)
  • Adult Executive Functioning Inventory (ADEXI)
  • Anxiety Depression and Mood Scale (ADAMS)
  • Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ)
  • ASRS-6 ADHD Screener
  • Attachment Style Questionnaire - Short Form (ASQ-SF)
  • Autism Spectrum Screening Questionnaire (ASSQ)
  • Autism Symptom Dimensions Questionnaire (ASDQ)
  • Autism Treatment Evaluation Checklist (ATEC)
  • Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ)
  • Binge-Eating Scale (BES)
  • Body Surface Area (BSA)
  • Brief 2-Way Social Support Scale
  • Brief Early Schema Questionnaire (BESQ)
  • Brief Emotional Distress Scale for Youth (BEDSY)
  • Brief Emotional Intelligence Scale (BEIS-10)
  • Brief Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (B-HiTOP)
  • Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire (BPAQ)
  • C-SSRS Self-Report Screener (Recent)
  • Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale - Revised (CESD-R)
  • Children's Dermatology Life Quality Index (CDLQI)
  • Children's Obsessional Compulsive Inventory – Self-Report (ChOCI-R-S)
  • Client Satisfaction Survey (CSS)
  • Communication Patterns Questionnaire — Short Form (CPQ-SF)
  • Community Integration Questionnaire (CIQ)
  • Compassion Motivation and Action Scales - Compassion (CMAS-other)
  • Compassion Motivation and Action Scales - Self-Compassion (CMAS-self)
  • Couples Satisfaction Index (CSI-32)
  • Death Anxiety Beliefs and Behaviours Scale (DABBS)
  • Depression Anxiety Stress Scales - Youth (DASS-Y)
  • Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI)
  • Digital Stress Scale
  • Dimensions of Anger Reactions-5 (DAR-5)
  • Dissociative Experiences Scale-II (DES-II)
  • Eczema Screening (UK Working Party Criteria)
  • Extreme Demand Avoidance Questionnaire – Adult (EDA-QA)
  • Falls Efficacy Scale - International (FES-I)
  • Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ-15)
  • Flourishing Scale (FS)
  • Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (FMPS)
  • Functional Activities Questionnaire (FAQ)
  • GAGS Global Acne Grading System
  • Game Addiction Scale for Adolescents (GASA)
  • Gender Preoccupation and Stability Questionnaire-2
  • Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS)
  • HiSCR - Hidradenitis Suppurativa Response
  • IBR Modified Overt Aggression Scale
  • IGA - Investigator Global Assessment
  • Institute for Basic Research – Modified Overt Aggression Scale (IBR-MOAS)
  • Life Events Checklist for DSM-5 (LEC-5)
  • Menopause Depression Rating Scale (Meno-D)
  • Mindfulness-Based Self Efficacy Scale - Revised
  • Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS)
  • Multidimensional Inventory of Dissociation - Adolescent (MID-60A)
  • Multidimensional Inventory of Dissociation (MID-60)
  • Music in Dementia Assessment Scales (MiDAS)
  • Nail Psoriasis Severity Index (NAPSI)
  • NovoPsych Five Factor Personality Scale - 30 item version (NFFPS-30)
  • Numeric Rating Scale - Itch (NRS-Itch)
  • Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI)
  • Patient-Oriented Eczema Measure
  • PBI - Patient Benefit Index
  • Perfectionistic Cognitions Inventory (PCI)
  • Personal Wellbeing Index - School Children (PWI-SC)
  • PEST Psoriatic Arthritis Screening
  • Phobic Stimuli Response Scale (PSRS)
  • Physician Global Assessment (PGA)
  • Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS)
  • Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs) Scale
  • PROMIS Ability to Participate in Social Roles 4a
  • PROMIS Physical Function 4a
  • PROMIS Physical Function Short Form 10a
  • PROMIS Sleep Disturbance 4a
  • PROMIS Upper Extremity Short Form 7a
  • Protective Factors of Resilience Scale
  • Psoriasis Area Severity Index (PASI)
  • PSYCHLOPS During Therapy
  • PSYCHLOPS Post-Therapy
  • PSYCHLOPS Pre-Therapy
  • Repetitive Behaviours Questionnaire-3 (RBQ-3)
  • Self-Administered PASI (SAPASI)
  • Self-Expression & Emotion Regulation in Arts Therapies (SERAPTS)
  • Short Health Anxiety Inventory (SHAI)
  • Skindex-29 Skin Quality of Life
  • SNAP-IV Rating Scale
  • Social Anxiety and Distress Scale (SADS)
  • Spinal Cord Independence Measure III (SCIM-III)
  • State Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (S-DERS)
  • Strengths and Stressors (SAS)
  • Stroke-Specific Quality of Life — Short Form (SS-QOL-12)
  • Supervisory Styles Inventory (SSI)
  • Thought-Action Fusion Scale - Revised (TAFS-R)
  • Timed Up and Go (TUG)
  • Trauma Recovery Measure (TRM)
  • Valuing Questionnaire (VQ)
  • Vancouver Obsessional Compulsive Inventory (VOCI)
  • Vanderbilt ADHD Diagnostic Parent Rating Scale (VADPRS)
  • Vanderbilt ADHD Diagnostic Teacher Rating Scale (VADTRS)
  • Weiss Symptom Record II (WSR-II)
  • Wender Utah Rating Scale (WURS-25)
  • WFIRS - Self Report
  • WHO Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 - Interview
  • WHO Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 - Proxy
  • WHO Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 - Self-Report
  • World Health Organisation Disability Assessment Schedule – Children (WHODAS-Child)
  • World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL-BREF)
  • Young Schema Questionnaire - Short Form (YSQ-S3)
  • Your Experience of Service (YES)

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