What happens during an adult ADHD screening?
You complete the screening online in your own time. The service then scores your answers, prepares a draft and holds the report for clinical review.
The short answer
Adult ADHDassess screening has four parts: identity and consent checks, structured history, configured questionnaires and optional informant context. Scoring is deterministic, then a clinician reviews the draft report before release. The result is screening evidence, not a diagnosis.
Before the questions begin
The adult pathway is for someone aged 18 or over who is completing their own screening. You confirm who you are, read the service boundary and give the required consent before personal health information is collected.
ADHDassess is not monitored as an emergency service. If you need urgent mental health help, use the urgent routes shown in the service rather than waiting for a screening report.
The information you provide
The screening asks about your history, current situation and examples of how attention, organisation, impulsivity or activity affect daily life. The released adult battery includes:
- the six-item Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale screener
- the PHQ-9 for depressive symptoms
- the GAD-7 for anxiety symptoms
- NeuroFX executive-function questions, which are descriptive and non-normed
- an optional structured context form from someone who knows you well
Questionnaire results stay separate. A wellbeing score is not treated as an ADHD score, and the custom executive-function questions are not presented as a validated diagnostic scale.
Scoring and clinical review
The server checks that required answers match the version of each questionnaire you were shown. Published tools are scored using their configured rules. Artificial intelligence cannot change your answers, raw scores or result bands.
A draft narrative is then prepared from a minimised summary. A clinician reviews the case and must approve the report before you can see it.
What you receive
The report presents source-labelled findings, limitations and possible next steps. It can help you prepare for a GP discussion or a full assessment, but it cannot guarantee either.
Sources
How this resource is maintained
This page is reviewed and maintained by NeuroFX Ltd. Its next scheduled review date is 14 February 2027.
Services and referral rules can change. Follow the linked NHS or provider page before acting on local pathway information.