The U.S. Adult Food Security Scale is intended to assess food security, food insecurity, and hunger among adults who do not have children present in their household. This measure was created to be less burdensome and to specifically ask adults about their experience with nutritional security.

The U.S. Household Food Security Scale is intended to assess food security, food insecurity, and hunger among families. Nutritional security is evaluated in stages, which include a child screening and a separate adult screening, together comprising the entire household. The scale has been slightly modified since its original publication in

The Six-Item Subset (Short Form) of the 12-month Food Security Scale items were taken from the 18-item Food Security Scale. This short form scale is intended to be used to quickly assess nutrition-based constructs among adults. Specifically, food security, food insecurity, and hunger are measured.

This Patient Health Questionnaire-4 (PHQ-4) is one of many scales modeled after the original PHQ measure. It is a valid four-item, composite measure that combines these two-item, ultra-brief scales: the Patient Health Questionnaire-2 (PHQ-2) to detect depressive disorders and the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-2 (GAD-2) to detect anxiety disorders.

The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System-29 (PROMIS-29) is a compilation of multiple subscales that assess pain intensity across seven health domains (physical function, fatigue, pain interference, depressive symptoms, anxiety, ability to participate in social roles and activities, and sleep disturbance). The mental health summary score is composed of the anxiety

The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) was developed to detect states of anxiety and depression in hospital medical outpatient clinic settings. The anxiety and depression subscales of this measure are also valid measures of the severity of the accompanying emotional disorder.

The Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression (CES-D) measure is a 20-item measure that asks patients to rate how often over the past week they experienced symptoms associated with depression, such as restless sleep, poor appetite, or feeling lonely. This measure is often used specifically with medically ill patients, but was developed

The Patient Health Questionnaire-2 (PHQ-2) is a brief version of the PHQ-9 measure. It measures the frequency of depressed mood and anhedonia over the past two weeks with just two items.

The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) is a 9-item measure given to patients in a primary care setting to screen for the presence and severity of depression. This measure comes from the larger Patient Health Questionnaire and measures the frequency of depressed mood and anhedonia over the past two weeks.

The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) was developed to measure psychiatric patient change over time. Each scale item represents a discrete symptom (e.g., depressive mood). Clinical interviewers, using both patient report of symptoms experienced over the preceding 2 weeks and behavioral observations made during a semi-structured interview, complete the ratings.