Methodology
A screening outcome, with its boundaries kept clear.
The validated screening and the product-authored context remain separate from answer to report.
The six-question screening
The first six questions use the English patient-facing Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale v1.1 6-Question Screener for adults aged 18 and over. The question wording, response options, and order are preserved in the electronic interface.
The official instrument is available from the NYU Langone Technology Opportunities & Ventures licensing page.
How the testing score is displayed
In this testing version, each response contributes 0–4 points and the six items total 0–24. A total of 14 or above is displayed as crossing the screening threshold. The range is not an ADHD probability or severity scale, and this presentation remains subject to clinical approval before any real launch.
A separate contextual layer
The questions about daily impact, affected areas, timing, earlier-life examples, compensating systems, sleep, stress, mood, and recent changes belong to this product. They help select relevant explanatory content and guidance. They are not part of the ASRS and never change its result.
A deterministic educational report
The report combines the unchanged screening outcome with the context you chose to provide using versioned, deterministic rules. It describes what stood out, reported impact, timing, relevant context, limitations, and proportionate next steps. It does not use an unrestricted AI model to decide the outcome or recommendation.
How support guidance is selected
Versioned rules select a small number of practical experiments only when the person's answers support them. Guidance favours visible cues, smaller first actions, fewer systems, realistic transitions, and general health basics. It is not a treatment plan and does not recommend a medicine, supplement, restrictive diet, or a particular provider type.
What the result cannot establish
Screening is not diagnosis. Crossing the screening threshold does not establish that someone has ADHD, and not crossing it does not make real difficulties unimportant. A qualified professional may consider a fuller history, functioning across settings, health context, and other possible contributors when an evaluation is appropriate.
ASRS attribution
The 6-question Adult Self-Report Scale-Version1.1 (ASRS-V1.1) Screener is a subset of the 18-question Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale-Version1.1 (Adult ASRS-V1.1) Symptom Checklist. © New York University and the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
The ASRS v1.1 Screener was created by Dr. Lenard Adler of NYU and Dr. Ronald Kessler of Harvard.