2.3.3. Generalized Anxiety Disorder–(GAD-7)
restless, anxiety
To track participants’ anxiety levels, the GAD-7 was used. The instrument consists of 7 items that assess how much the patient is bothered by feeling nervous, anxious, worried, restless, and irritated in the last two weeks. Questions were answered on a Likert-type scale (0–3), and scores ranged from 0 to 21, where higher scores refer to a higher degree of anxiety [