Assessing Generalized Anxiety Disorder in Elderly People Using the GAD-7 and GAD-2 Scales: Results of a Validation Study

The 7-Item Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale as a Tool for Measuring Generalized Anxiety in Multiple Sclerosis

“…6 This measure was validated in primary-care patients and further in international populations, 16 the general population, 17 psychiatric populations, 18 and geriatric populations. 19 Although the GAD-7 is used in MS, 20 the psychometrics of the measure have not been evaluated.…”

Factor structure and construct validity of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item (GAD-7) among Portuguese college students

“…As a short and objective self-report measure showing strong properties as a screening tool 11 , researchers have tested its psychometric characteristics in several settings. In this context, over the last decade, GAD-7 has been presented as a reliable and valid questionnaire in different languages 14,15,16,17,18 including Portuguese 19 , with heterogeneous psychiatric samples 20,21 for specific medical conditions 22,23,24,25 in the general population 26 and in geriatric samples 27 . However, the one-dimensional nature of GAD-7 proposed by the original model is not consistent in the literature.…”

Gender Differences in Self-Perceived Personal Resources of Older Adults with Generalized Anxiety Symptoms

“…The GAD-7 was validated in a large sample of primary care patients and showed good psychometric properties [23]. In a previous study, in the ESTHER study sample, it was shown that in elderly patients it would be advisable to lower the cut-off-point for detecting GAD from 10 to 5 [21]. Thus, in our study, participants with a GAD-7 >5 were categorized as having symptoms of a generalized anxiety disorder.…”

“…Generalized anxiety disorder symptoms were measured by using the GAD-7 (seven-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale) [21]. The seven items of the GAD represent the criteria of Generalized Anxiety Disorder of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) [22].…”