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Anta Bikhair is a bilingual digital mental and behavioural health screening tool designed to help you better understand your wellbeing across selected issue themes. It lets you take a screening, see a personalised result, explore support options, and keep a copy of your report.
What a screening can and cannot do
A screening result is not a diagnosis. It tells you whether your answers resemble a pattern that is worth discussing with a professional.
Two people with the same score can be in very different situations, and only a qualified clinician can assess yours.
What the tool does
English and Arabic
The tool is available in both languages, and the whole interface follows the one you choose — the pages, the questions, the answer options and the direction of the layout.
The screening
Nine issue themes, each a structured questionnaire drawn from an internationally used instrument. You answer one question at a time, with multiple-choice answers, and some questions are skipped depending on what you have already said.
Your result
Your answers are scored against the instrument you took, and you are shown what that score suggests in plain language, along with what the theme covers and what you might do next.
Support options
Where a result suggests that talking to someone would help, it points you to the Health and Counseling Center. The tool never books anything on your behalf and never contacts anyone about you.
Keeping a copy
You can save or print your result, and share it yourself if you want to — with a counsellor, a doctor or someone you trust. Nothing is sent anywhere unless you send it.
Feedback
You are invited to rate the experience and say what worked and what did not. Feedback is stored with the screening it refers to and with nothing that identifies you.
Privacy
The screening is anonymous. No personally identifying information is collected, stored or linked to your answers: not your name, not your email, not your student ID.
What is stored is your answers, the score they produce, the summary you were shown, the language you used, and a coarse location — city and country — derived from your connection. A random identifier ties those records to each other and to nothing else.
While you are answering, your progress is kept in this browser so you can close the tab and come back to it. Finishing the screening clears it, and so does clearing your browser data.
Aggregated, non-identifiable figures are used to understand how the tool is being used and to improve it.
The nine questionnaires
What each theme measures, and exactly how the answers are scored. Open the one you are interested in.
AnxietyGAD-7
About
The Generalised Anxiety Disorder Assessment (GAD-7) is a short self-report tool for identifying symptoms of anxiety, aligned with the diagnostic criteria for generalised anxiety disorder in the DSM.
It asks you to reflect on how often you have experienced specific anxiety-related symptoms over the previous two weeks. Because its wording is plain, it suits adolescents of 14 and older as well as adults.
A total of 10 or above indicates a high likelihood of generalised anxiety disorder, with strong sensitivity (89%) and specificity (82%). An elevated score may also reflect panic disorder, social anxiety or post-traumatic stress.
How it is scored
- Each of the 7 items is scored 0–3: not at all 0, several days 1, more than half the days 2, nearly every day 3.
- The GAD-7 total is the sum of all 7 items, to a maximum of 21. The GAD-2 total is the sum of the first 2 items, to a maximum of 6.
- Bands: 0–4 minimal, 5–9 mild, 10–14 moderate, 15–21 severe. The screen is positive if GAD-7 ≥ 10 or GAD-2 ≥ 3.
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Informed by the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item (GAD-7) framework, which is the reference for the question design and the scoring method.
DepressionPHQ-9
About
The PHQ-9 is a short self-report assessment of symptoms related to depression, based on the diagnostic criteria for major depressive disorder in the DSM. It asks how often you have experienced each symptom over the past two weeks.
It supports both screening and monitoring over time. In non-clinical settings such as a university it serves as a first step towards identifying who might benefit from a fuller evaluation, and it suits people of 13 and older.
Each of its nine items corresponds to a key symptom of depression, so the total gives a consistent picture of symptom burden rather than a verdict.
How it is scored
- Each of the 9 items is scored 0–3: not at all 0, several days 1, more than half the days 2, nearly every day 3.
- The total is the sum of all 9 items, to a maximum of 27. Bands: 0–4 minimal, 5–9 mild, 10–19 moderately severe, 20–27 severe.
- The screen is positive at 10 or above. The tenth question, about difficulty functioning, is reported but not scored.
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Informed by the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), a validated framework for assessing the degree of depression severity.
Bipolar DisorderMDQ
About
The Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ) screens for indicators associated with bipolar spectrum disorders in adults. It consists of 15 self-report items covering lifetime experiences of manic and hypomanic symptoms, aligned with DSM-based concepts.
The items cover elevated or irritable mood, increased energy and activity, reduced need for sleep, racing thoughts, distractibility, impulsivity and risk-taking. It also asks whether those symptoms tended to occur together and whether they caused difficulty.
How it is scored
- In the symptom block, each "Yes" scores 1. The total is the sum of the 13 symptom items, to a maximum of 13.
- A positive screen requires a symptom total of 7 or more, together with symptoms occurring in the same period, and a rating of "moderate problem" or "serious problem" for the difficulty they caused.
- If those conditions are not all met the screen is negative, and the total is still reported out of 13.
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Informed by the Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ), a validated framework used as the reference for assessing bipolar-related symptoms.
Eating DisordersSCOFF
About
The SCOFF questionnaire is a brief screen for possible indicators of eating-related concerns, consisting of five short questions. It is designed to flag quickly who might benefit from a fuller evaluation.
The name is an acronym drawn from the themes of its questions; what matters is the meaning of the questions rather than the acronym itself.
How it is scored
- Each question scores 1 for "Yes" and 0 for "No". The total is the sum of the five, to a maximum of 5.
- The screen is positive at 2 or more, or if the closing question about the effect on your life is answered "Yes".
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Informed by the Sick, Control, One, Fat, Food (SCOFF) questionnaire.
StressIADQ
About
The International Adjustment Disorder Questionnaire (IADQ) assesses symptoms that follow a stressful life event. It is an 18-item self-report measure aligned with the ICD-11 framework.
It first asks which stressful events you have experienced, then how much the symptoms that followed have preoccupied you, how far they have kept you from adapting, and how much they interfere with daily life.
How it is scored
- The nine severity items — preoccupation, failure to adapt, and impairment — are each scored 0–4, giving a total range of 0–36.
- The stressful-event questions and the "did this start within a month" question are Yes/No and carry no weight, so a total reflects symptoms rather than how many events you have lived through.
- A total of 10 or above is a positive screen. No severity band is shown for this theme.
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Informed by the International Adjustment Disorder Questionnaire (IADQ).
Obsessive Compulsive DisorderOCI-R
About
The Obsessive Compulsive Inventory–Revised (OCI-R) is an 18-item self-report measure of obsessive-compulsive symptoms across six domains: washing, checking, ordering, obsessing, hoarding and mental neutralising.
It measures how much distress each kind of experience has caused you recently, rather than how often it happened.
How it is scored
- Each item is scored 0–4, giving a total range of 0–72.
- A total of 21 or above is a positive screen.
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Informed by the Obsessive Compulsive Inventory – Revised (OCI-R).
Behavioral AddictionsIGDS9-SF
About
The IGDS9-SF assesses internet gaming disorder against the nine DSM-5 criteria, using one item per criterion and asking about the past twelve months.
It covers preoccupation, withdrawal, tolerance, loss of control, giving up other activities, continuing despite problems, deceiving others, escaping negative moods, and the loss of a relationship, job or opportunity.
How it is scored
- Each of the 9 items is scored 1–5, giving a total range of 9–45.
- A total of 32 or above is a positive screen.
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Informed by the Internet Gaming Disorder Scale–Short Form (IGDS9-SF).
Physical SymptomsPHQ-15
About
The PHQ-15 measures the severity of physical symptoms over the past four weeks across 15 common complaints — pain, gastrointestinal, cardiopulmonary and fatigue symptoms among them.
Physical symptoms with no clear medical explanation are common and treatable, and this instrument is a way of noticing how much they are affecting you.
How it is scored
- Each symptom is scored 0, 1 or 2: not bothered 0, bothered a little 1, bothered a lot 2. The total range is 0–30.
- A positive screen is a total of 10 or above, or at least three of the thirteen symptom items answered "bothered a lot" — so the theme is judged per item as well as in total, and carries no severity band.
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Informed by the Patient Health Questionnaire-15 (PHQ-15).
Sleep DisordersISI
About
The Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) is a seven-item self-report measure of the nature and severity of insomnia over the past two weeks.
It asks about difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep and waking too early, then about satisfaction with sleep, how noticeable the problem is to others, how distressing it is, and how much it interferes with daily functioning.
How it is scored
- Each of the 7 items is scored 0–4, giving a total range of 0–28. That includes the four items worded as satisfaction, noticeability, worry and interference — each of their five answers carries the same 0–4 weight as the severity items.
- Bands: 0–7 no clinically significant insomnia, 8–14 subthreshold, 15–21 moderate, 22–28 severe.
- A total of 15 or above — moderate clinical insomnia — is a positive screen.
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Informed by the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI).