Beck Anxiety Inventory

Beck Anxiety Inventory

The Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), created by Dr. Aaron T. Beck, is a 21-question multiple-choice self-report inventory that is used for measuring the severity of an individual's anxiety.

BAI

The BAI consists of twenty-one questions about how the subject has been feeling in the last week. Each question has the same set of four possible answer choices, which are arranged in columns and are answered by marking the appropriate one with a cross. These are:

1. Numbness or tingling
* NOT AT ALL
* MILDLY: It did not bother me much.
* MODERATELY: It was very unpleasant, but I could stand it.
* SEVERELY: I could barely stand it.

Clinical use

Evidence suggests the scale is best at assessing panic symptomatology [cite journal |author=Leyfer OT, Ruberg JL, Woodruff-Borden J |title=Examination of the utility of the Beck Anxiety Inventory and its factors as a screener for anxiety disorders |journal=J Anxiety Disord |volume=20 |issue=4 |pages=444–58 |year=2006 |pmid=16005177 |doi=10.1016/j.janxdis.2005.05.004] . It has been used in a variety of different patient groups, including adolescents [cite journal |author=Osman A, Hoffman J, Barrios FX, Kopper BA, Breitenstein JL, Hahn SK |title=Factor structure, reliability, and validity of the Beck Anxiety Inventory in adolescent psychiatric inpatients |journal=J Clin Psychol |volume=58 |issue=4 |pages=443–56 |year=2002 |pmid=11920696 |doi=] and elderly patients [cite journal |author=Kabacoff RI, Segal DL, Hersen M, Van Hasselt VB |title=Psychometric properties and diagnostic utility of the Beck Anxiety Inventory and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory with older adult psychiatric outpatients |journal=J Anxiety Disord |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=33–47 |year=1997 |pmid=9131880 |doi=] .

A 1999 review found that it was the third most used research measure of anxiety, behind the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and the Fear Survey Schedule [cite journal |author=Piotrowski C |title=The status of the Beck Anxiety Inventory in contemporary research |journal=Psychol Rep |volume=85 |issue=1 |pages=261–2 |year=1999 |pmid=10575991 |doi=] .

ee also

* Beck Depression Inventory
* Beck Hopelessness Scale
* Major Depression Inventory

References


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