The Beck Anxiety Inventory in Older Adults With Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Wetherell, Julie Loebach; Gatz, Margaret

doi:10.1007/s10862-005-3261-3

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“…Internal consistency is adequate in communitydwelling older adults (Morin et al, 1999;alpha=.89), older psychiatric patients (Kabacoff et al, 1997;alpha=.90), and older medical patients (Steer, Willman, Kay & Beck, 1994;Wetherell & Arean, 1997;alpha=.86 to .92). The BAI demonstrated good convergent validity in older adults with GAD, but, consistent with most measures of anxiety and depression, had poor discriminate validity (Wetherell & Gatz, 2005).…”

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Psychometric properties of the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale-21 in older primary care patients

Gloster

Rhoades

Novy

et al. 2008

Journal of Affective Disorders

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The Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS) was designed to efficiently measure the core symptoms of anxiety and depression and has demonstrated positive psychometric properties in adult samples of anxiety and depression patients and student samples. Despite these findings, the psychometric properties of the DASS remain untested in older adults, for whom the identification of efficient measures of these constructs is especially important.To determine the psychometric properties of the DASS 21-item version in older adults, we analyzed data from 222 medical patients seeking treatment to manage worry. Consistent with younger samples, a three-factor structure best fit the data. Results also indicated good internal consistency, excellent convergent validity, and good discriminative validity, especially for the depression scale. Receiver operating curve analyses indicated that the DASS-21 predicted the diagnostic presence of generalized anxiety disorder and depression as well as other commonly used measures.These data suggest that the DASS may be used with older adults in lieu of multiple scales designed to measure similar constructs, thereby reducing participant burden and facilitating assessment in settings with limited assessment resources. Publisher's Disclaimer: This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final citable form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. NIH Public Access Psychometric Properties of the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale-21 in Older Primary Care PatientsLovibond and Lovibond (1995a) developed a single measure to assess the core symptoms of depression and anxiety while maximizing discriminant validity between these constructs. Using an empirically driven iterative process, they identified a third factor, which they labeled stress. Their research resulted in the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS), which consists of 42 items comprising three scales of 14 items. Items refer to the past week; and scores range from 0, "Did not apply to me at all," to 4, "Applied to me very much, or most of the time." The Depression scale measures hopelessness, low self-esteem, and low positive affect. The Anxiety scale assesses autonomic arousal, physiological hyperarousal, and the subjective feeling of fear. The Stress scale items measure tension, agitation, and negative affect. Brown, et al., 1997;Clara et al., 2001), , and Depression -Stress (.57 -.79). Older AdultsDespite encouraging psychometric data with the DASS in younger adults, the measure remains untested in older adults. Given the high prevalence of anxiety, depression, and comorbid anxiety-depression in older adults and the need for briefer instruments that efficiently ev...

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confidence: 90%

Psychometric properties of the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale-21 in older primary care patients

Gloster

Rhoades

Novy

et al. 2008

Journal of Affective Disorders

378

290

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“…For example, one comparison of the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI; Beck et al, 1988) in older adults with and without GAD found evidence that somatic BAI items frequently reflect medical illness rather than anxiety (Wetherell and Gatz, 2005). Moreover, the BAI, with 21 items, may be too long for use in primary care, especially given the need to assess for other commonly occurring mental health problems such as depression.…”

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Screening for generalized anxiety disorder in geriatric primary care patients

Wetherell

Birchler

Ramsdell

et al. 2006

Int J Geriat Psychiatry

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“…The results of this study showed that the Persian version of Beck Anxiety Inventory has a good reliability (r=0.72, P<0.001), a very good validity (r=0.83, P<0.001), and an excellent internal consistency (a=0.92). Wetherell and Gatz (2005) explored the psychometric properties of the Beck Anxiety Inventory in a clinical group that included 75 patients with generalized anxiety disorder and a comparison group that included 32 adults without significant psychopathology. They discovered that internal consis-tency was above 0.80 and the Beck Anxiety Inventory showed evidence of convergent validity in both groups.…”

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The Effectiveness of Emotion Regulation Skills Training on Anxiety and Emotional Regulation Strategies in Adolescent Students

Nesayan

Hosseini

Gandomani

2017

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Objective: In this study, we aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of training on emotion regulation skills and emotion regulation strategies to overcome anxiety in female students. Methods:We used a quasi-experimental design with pre-test and post-test evaluations to compare the experimental group with a control group. A total of 30 students were selected by multistage cluster sampling and were randomly assigned to either the experimental group (15 students) or the control group (15 students). Data were collected via Beck Anxiety Inventory and Gross and John Emotion Regulation Questionnaire. The experimental group received eight training sessions on emotional regulation, whereas the control group did not receive any training. An analysis of covariance was used for data analysis.Results: According to the results, training on emotion regulation strategies had a significant effect in decreasing anxiety and maladaptive emotional regulation strategies as well as in increasing the adaptive emotional regulation strategies in students (P<0.01). Conclusion:Training on emotion regulation skills can decrease anxiety, and suppression of maladaptive emotional regulation strategy can increase the reappraisal of an adaptive emotional regulation strategy for students.

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The Beck Anxiety Inventory in Older Adults With Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Cited by 71 publications

References 27 publications

Psychometric properties of the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale-21 in older primary care patients

Psychometric properties of the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale-21 in older primary care patients

Screening for generalized anxiety disorder in geriatric primary care patients

The Effectiveness of Emotion Regulation Skills Training on Anxiety and Emotional Regulation Strategies in Adolescent Students

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