Beck Anxiety Inventory

BAI

Co-morbidity

Problems associated with use

General

To assess somatic symptoms of anxiety, both in anxiety and depressive disorders

Anxiety level

2001

A.H. Beck, 1988

Available at: https://www.brandeis.edu/roybal/docs/BAI_website_PDF.pdf

http://www.cenetec.salud.gob.mx/descargas/gpc/CatalogoMaestro/392_IMSS_10_Ansiedad/EyR_IMSS_392_10.pdf

21 questionnaire items where the user must identify symptoms presented in the last week, valuing them at "Little or nothing", " More or less" "Moderately "and " Severely".

This scale is a self-report measure of anxiety. Items: 21 Reliability: Internal consistency for the BAI= (Cronbach’s α=0.92)Test-retest reliability (1 week) for the BAI = 0.75(Beck, Epstein, Brown, &Steer, 1988). Validity: The BAI was moderately correlated with the revised Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (.51), and mildly correlated with the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (.25) (Beck et al., 1988)

21

Self-administered or by a professional

The total sum of the scores obtained in each item is perforemed and the total score is obtained with them, which indicates the level of anxiety as follows: 0 to 5 points, minimal anxiety; 6 to 15 points, mild anxiety; 16 to 30 points, moderate anxiety; and from 31 to 63 points, severe anxiety.

Instrument that can be applied at any level of care or in non-clinical populations to assess the anxiety level

General adult population

Steer, Robert A., and Aaron T. Beck. "Beck Anxiety Inventory." (1997).