Screening for anxiety in patients with cancer:diagnostic accuracy of GAD-7 items considering lowered GAD-7 cut-offs

The data set shows the results of the GAD-7 questionnaire, which were collected as part of the routine psychosocial screening of oncology patients at the start of chemotherapy. In addition to the questionnaire scores, the data set also includes the following sociobiographical and disease-related variables: gender, age, primary cancer site, and time since diagnosis (in month).