Health Anxiety Test
A HelpClinic questionnaire about the fear of having a serious illness: checking your body, searching symptoms online, and relief that fades a few days after a normal result. The questions cover the past 30 days and take about 3 minutes.
Instructions
This questionnaire does not ask whether you are ill, or what symptoms you have. It asks something else: how much room the fear of a serious illness takes up in your head, and what you do to quiet it.
Answer ten questions, thinking about the past 30 days.
Important: if you have a symptom nobody has assessed yet, this test is not a substitute for seeing a doctor and there is no reason to delay it. Health anxiety and real illness do not rule each other out — you can have one, the other, or both. This questionnaire is about what happens after an examination finds nothing.
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To withdraw storage consent, you can delete the saved result from its result page in the browser where you completed the questionnaire. If that browser session is lost or you open an email link on another device, contact the privacy team for deletion.
Related areas to explore
These questionnaires are optional. They often cover overlapping feelings and do not show that you have another condition. You do not need to take them all.
Instrument and source information
HelpClinic Health Anxiety Check (ten original items) · HelpClinic
This is a self-reflection tool built by HelpClinic. It is for information only and does not replace a professional diagnosis. It is not a validated psychometric questionnaire, and the boundaries between score levels are not clinical thresholds. The questions were written from the description of ICD-11 6B23 (hypochondriasis / health anxiety disorder), but the result identifies neither that nor any other disorder.
Nor does this test tell you that you are well. Show a doctor any symptom that has not yet been assessed — a high score here is not a reason to skip that. Health anxiety is treated effectively, most often with cognitive behavioural therapy.
Common questions
Can this questionnaire diagnose a condition?
No. It is a snapshot based on how you report feeling at this time. It cannot confirm or rule out a condition.
Do I need an email, and how long is my result kept?
No. You can see your result without an account or email. Email is optional, for one requested report. The waitlist has a separate checkbox, unchecked by default. Private access lasts 30 days. Expired results are deleted from the active database within one day of expiry. Backups have separate retention periods described in the privacy policy.
What can I do next?
Choose a small step that suits you. If you are worried, speak with a qualified professional regardless of your score. Related questionnaires are optional and do not provide diagnoses.
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