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Use this category to review screening tools for patterns that may become difficult to control, cause distress, or affect relationships, work, study, and daily routines. These questionnaires can help organize observations before a conversation with a qualified professional, but they do not diagnose addiction.
Start with the behaviour you want to understand: alcohol, gambling, shopping, internet use or sexual behaviour. These questionnaires ask different questions, so a higher number on one tool cannot be compared with a lower number on another.
CAGE asks four questions about drinking-related concerns and consequences. The gambling form explores a longer history, while the shopping questionnaire asks about buying patterns. The two digital-habit questionnaires overlap in online activities; read their descriptions to find the closer fit.
Time spent or frequency alone tells only part of the story. Examples of lost sleep, financial strain, conflict or unsuccessful attempts to stop can make a discussion more useful. Keep current patterns distinct from experiences that happened years ago.
Use administration method, audience, and purpose to choose an appropriate educational or screening resource.
Shopping becomes a different kind of concern when it is hard to stop, takes priority over other activities, or repeatedly leads to conflict.
CAGE asks about four experiences around drinking: wanting to cut down, feeling annoyed by criticism, feeling guilty, and having a drink first thing in the morning.
This 17-question gambling questionnaire asks about time spent thinking about gambling, efforts to stop, chasing losses, borrowing money and effects on relationships or work.
This questionnaire looks at how time online fits into daily life.
This 18-question assessment explores internet and smartphone habits, including staying connected longer than planned, checking messages and choosing online activity over other things.
This 45-question sexual-behaviour questionnaire covers personal history, feelings about sexual behaviour, attempts to control it and consequences for everyday life.
