PANSS Helper
Rate all 30 PANSS items (1–7) and instantly see Positive, Negative, General Psychopathology, and Total scores with severity interpretation.
Score Summary
Beliefs held with conviction that are inconsistent with reality.
Disorganized thinking reflected in disjointed or incoherent speech.
Verbal report or behavior indicating perceptions without real stimuli.
Hyperactivity reflected in accelerated motor behavior and heightened reactivity.
Exaggerated self-opinion, conviction of unusual ability, wealth, or identity.
Unrealistic beliefs of being harassed, persecuted, or conspired against.
Verbal and nonverbal expressions of anger and resentment.
Diminished emotional responsiveness evidenced by reduced facial expression, voice modulation, and gestural communication.
Lack of interest in, involvement with, and affective commitment to life events.
Lack of interpersonal empathy, openness in conversation, and sense of closeness or interest with the interviewer.
Diminished interest and initiative in social interactions due to passivity, apathy, or lack of energy.
Impairment in the use of the abstract-symbolic mode of thinking, as evidenced by difficulty with category concepts.
Reduction in the normal flow of communication associated with apathy, volition deficit, defensiveness, or cognitive deficit.
Decreased fluency, spontaneity, and flexibility of thinking evidenced by rigid, repetitive, or barren thought content.
Physical complaints or beliefs about bodily illness or malfunctions.
Subjective experience of nervousness, worry, apprehension, or restlessness.
Sense of remorse or self-blame for real or imagined misdeeds in the past.
Overt physical manifestations of fear, anxiety, and agitation.
Unnatural movements or posture as characterized by an awkward, stilted, disorganized, or bizarre appearance.
Feelings of sadness, discouragement, helplessness, and pessimism.
Reduction in motor activity reflected in slowing or lessening of movements and speech.
Active refusal to comply with the will of significant others, including interviewer, clinical staff, or family.
Thinking characterized by strange, fantastic, or bizarre ideation.
Lack of awareness of one's relationship to the milieu, including persons, place, and time.
Failure in focused alertness manifested by poor concentration, distractibility, and difficulty sustaining purposeful thinking.
Impaired awareness or understanding of one's own psychiatric condition and life situation.
Disturbance in the will power, motivation, and sense of control over one's own thoughts, wishes, and actions.
Disordered regulation and control of action on inner urges, resulting in sudden, unmodulated, arbitrary, or misdirected discharge of tension and emotions.
Absorption with internally generated thoughts and feelings and with autistic experiences to the detriment of reality orientation and adaptive behavior.
Diminished social involvement associated with unwarranted fear, hostility, or distrust.
Summary
Rate all 30 PANSS items (1–7) and instantly see Positive, Negative, General Psychopathology, and Total scores with severity interpretation.
How it works
- Rate each of the 30 items on a scale from 1 (Absent) to 7 (Extreme).
- Positive subscale (P1–P7) captures active psychosis symptoms like delusions and hallucinations.
- Negative subscale (N1–N7) captures deficit symptoms like blunted affect and social withdrawal.
- General Psychopathology subscale (G1–G16) captures broader symptoms like anxiety, depression, and poor impulse control.
- Scores are summed automatically; the Total score ranges from 30 to 210.
- Severity interpretation is shown based on published PANSS clinical thresholds.
Use cases
- Baseline assessment of schizophrenia symptom severity at intake.
- Tracking treatment response over time in clinical trials.
- Monitoring symptom changes during antipsychotic medication adjustments.
- Standardized documentation for psychiatric inpatient or outpatient settings.
- Teaching trainees about schizophrenia symptom domains.
- Research data collection for psychosis studies.