Validation of the Brazilian Portuguese Version of Geriatric Anxiety Inventory – GAI-BR

Massena, Patrícia Nitschke; Araújo, Narahyana Bom de; Pachana, Nancy A.; Laks, Jérson; Pádua, Analuiza Camozzato de

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“…Accordingly, Márquez-González et al 16 found a Cronbach's alpha of 0.91 for the Spanish version of the GAI and Diefenbach et al 30 , in a North-American sample, found an internal consistency of 0.93. In the present study, a satisfactory test-retest correlation of 0.58 was reported for the GAI, corroborating the results of Massena et al 20 who found a correlation of 0.68. In the study of Diefenbach et al 30 , test-retest correlation was 0.95.…”

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confidence: 93%

“…In the follow up sub sample, the GAI and GAI-SF correlated significantly with the BAI, suggesting good convergent validity and corroborating the findings of previous studies 13,17,18,20 . A significant correlation was also found with the SRQ-20, which assesses common mental disorders and includes a number of questions on depression and anxiety.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…The GAI showed high internal consistency (0.89), proving comparable to the original validation study and the Brazilian version of the GAI 20 . Accordingly, Márquez-González et al 16 found a Cronbach's alpha of 0.91 for the Spanish version of the GAI and Diefenbach et al 30 , in a North-American sample, found an internal consistency of 0.93.…”

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confidence: 64%

“…Massena et al 20 evaluated the psychometric properties of the Brazilian GAI in a sample of 72 elderly recruited from an outpatient psychogeriatric clinic and community centers. The internal consistency (α = 0.91) and test-retest reliability (p = 0.85, p < 0.001) were high.…”

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The Geriatric Anxiety Inventory in primary care: applicability and psychometric characteristics of the original and short form

Silva

Oliveira

Yokomizo

et al. 2016

Arch. Clin. Psychiatry (São Paulo)

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Background: Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) has negative implications for people's lives, but is often underdiagnosed in the elderly. There is a shortage of instruments to assess geriatric anxiety. Objectives: To analyze the applicability and psychometric properties of the Portuguese version of the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory (GAI) and its short form (GAI-SF) within primary care. Methods: Fifty-five seniors were classified as non-demented by a multidisciplinary panel. The protocol included the GAI, the Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20), the Depression Scale D-10, Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), Bayer Scale for Activities of Daily Living (B-ADL) and the Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly (IQCODE). A sub-sample also completed the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI). Results: The GAI and GAI-SF showed good internal consistency (0.89; 0.62, respectively) and test-retest stability (0.58, 0.97). The GAI and GAI-SF correlated significantly with the 0.55) and BAI (0.75, 0.58). Discussion: The psychometric characteristics of the Brazilian versions of the GAI and GAI-SF suggest these instruments are suitable for application in the Brazilian elderly population within the primary care setting.

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confidence: 89%

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The Geriatric Anxiety Inventory in primary care: applicability and psychometric characteristics of the original and short form

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Yokomizo

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Arch. Clin. Psychiatry (São Paulo)

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“…These instruments are also now being tested in different healthcare settings and in different languages. This issue of International Psychogeriatrics contains a paper demonstrating the validity of a Brazilian-Portuguese translation of the GAI (Nitschke Massena et al, 2015). The content of the items of instruments designed for younger adults may not be appropriate for older people.…”

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Late-life anxiety is coming of age

Beekman

Voshaar²,

Pachana

2015

Int. Psychogeriatr.

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Anxiety is an adaptive human experience that may occur at all ages and serves to help draw attention to, avoid or cope with immanent threat and danger. Given its evolutionary importance, it has strong genetic and biological underpinnings, and when it serves that adaptive function for the organism, anxiety may be viewed as useful. However, complex adaptive systems, such as our adaptation to threat or stress, by definition provide many and often interrelated points of breakdown or dysregulation, which, if sustained, may lead to psychopathology. Anxiety has been described as a common currency for psychopathology, indicating that it is a first line and universal way for us to respond to stress and threat. It is more or less prominent in patients diagnosed with practically all psychiatric or neurodegenerative disorders. This has lead to the inclusion of anxiety as a cross-cutting symptom measure in the development of DSM-5 (APA, 2013). Given that they are rooted in a complex adaptive system that has many potential points of impact to develop pathology, it is not surprising that anxiety disorders are extremely heterogeneous. This heterogeneity of anxiety disorders pertains to symptomatology, etiology and outcomes, and poses great challenges to both research and clinical practice.

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Borella

Carretti

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Int J Geriat Psychiatry

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Validation of the Brazilian Portuguese Version of Geriatric Anxiety Inventory – GAI-BR

Abstract: GAI-BR has demonstrated very good psychometric properties and can be a reliable instrument to measure anxiety in Brazilian elderly people.

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The Geriatric Anxiety Inventory in primary care: applicability and psychometric characteristics of the original and short form

The Geriatric Anxiety Inventory in primary care: applicability and psychometric characteristics of the original and short form

Late-life anxiety is coming of age

Categorization Working Memory Span Task: Validation study of two Brazilian alternate versions

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