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The Anxious Couple
Published in Len Sperry, Katherine Helm, Jon Carlson, The Disordered Couple, 2019
Katie L. Springfield, Rosa M. Macklin-Hinkle
General assessment of distress and functioning is critical when determining treatment goals, interventions, and approaches. Along with general measures of couples’ level of functioning, there are a number of specific measures to assess for severity of specific disorders. The Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) is a self-report measure completed by the client to assess for symptoms of anxiety. The Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN) and Mini-SPIN self-report measures assess more specifically for symptoms of social anxiety disorder (Connor, Kobak, Churchill, Katzelnick, & Davidson, 2001). The Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS) is another brief self-report measure that can be useful in assessing for the presence and severity of social anxiety disorder.
Measurements of Depression and Anxiety Disorders
Published in Siegfried Kasper, Johan A. den Boer, J. M. Ad Sitsen, Handbook of Depression and Anxiety, 2003
Dean F. MacKinnon, Hoehn-Saric Rudolf
The Beck Anxiety Inventory was administered to 105 outpatients who were diagnosed with various types of psychiatric disorders by Steer et al. [33]. A principal factor analysis was performed, and two factors were found to represent subjective and somatic symptoms of anxiety. Results of this study supported the use of the inventory for evaluating self-reported anxiety in outpatients adolescents.
Diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Published in Jay A. Goldstein, Chronic Fatigue Syndromes, 2020
It is of value to screen CFS patients for psychiatric problems using standardized instruments, both for clinical information and for stratification in a research or epidemiologic paradigm. Test results must be interpreted with caution, however, since mood disorders may be overdiagnosed in a population with chronic illness and neuropsychologic impairment. Our patients receive: Symptom Checklist 90: a 90-item, 5-point self-rating scale. It has nine dimensional scales: somatization, obsessive-compulsive, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation, and psychoticism.Beck Depression Inventory: a 63-item, 4-point self-rating scale indicative of a person’s feelings in the past week, including the day of administration.Beck Anxiety Inventory: a 21-item, 4-point adjective self-rating scale that indicates the severity of the anxiety felt during the past week, including the day of administration.Karnofsky Performance Scale: a self-rating scale from 0 to 100 indicating the ability of the patient to perform activities of daily living.Somatosensory Amplification Scale: a 10-item self-rating scale which notes the presence of symptoms associated with somatization.Columbia Criteria for Atypical Depression: assessed by the physician.These tests provide much useful information at little cost, and can be scored rapidly and interpreted by the physician. The findings can be integrated with other clinical data and may indicate the need for further investigation.
Gender Scripts and Female Sexual Functioning: The Role of Sexual Pressure and Sexual Subjectivity
Published in The Journal of Sex Research, 2022
Agathe Scappini, Giulia Fioravanti
The Italian adaptation (Sica & Chiri, 2007) of the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI; A.T. Beck et al., 1988) was used to assess symptoms of anxiety. The BAI is a 21-item self-report questionnaire that assesses the presence and severity of anxiety symptoms in adolescents and adults. Respondents are asked to indicate how much a series of anxiety-related symptoms have interfered with their daily life in the week preceding the assessment. An example of a symptom is “Hands trembling.” The severity of each symptom is rated on a 4-point scale (from 0 = “Not at All” to 3 = “Severely- It Bothered Me a Lot”). Higher scores indicate higher levels of anxiety. The internal consistency of the BAI was found to be high (Cronbach’s alpha = .92) and its one-week test-retest reliability was found to be good (.75; A.T. Beck et al., 1988). The Italian version of the instrument also showed good psychometric properties (Sica & Ghisi, 2007). In the current study, Cronbach’s alpha was .94.
Social isolation after acquired brain injury: Exploring the relationship between network size, functional support, loneliness and mental health
Published in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 2022
Christian E. Salas, Daniel Rojas-Líbano, Osvaldo Castro, Ramiro Cruces, Jonathan Evans, Darinka Radovic, Camilo Arévalo-Romero, Julio Torres, Álvaro Aliaga
To explore mental health problems, two instruments were employed. The Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI, Beck et al., 1988) was used to assess anxiety symptomatology. The BAI is a 21 item self-report scale, and each item has a four-response option, from “Not at all” to “Severely, it bothers me all the time.” The scale has shown good acceptability, internal consistency (α = 0.90) (de Beurs et al., 1997). Depressive symptoms were measured using the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9; Baader et al., 2012). This is a 9-item self-report scale that captures the presence of depressive symptoms during the last two weeks using DSM-IV criteria. Each item offers a four-response option, from “Not at all” to “Nearly every day.” PHQ-9 has shown a good sensitivity (88%) and a specificity (88%) for major depression (Kroenke et al., 2001).
Bedtime behaviors: Parental mental health, parental sleep, parental accommodation, and children’s sleep disturbance
Published in Children's Health Care, 2020
Caroline M. Roberts, Kristina L. Harper, Steven L. Bistricky, Mary B. Short
Parental anxiety severity was measured using the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI; Beck, Epstein, Brown, & Steer, 1988), which is one of the most commonly used measures to assess anxiety symptoms in adult populations. It consists of 21 self-report items that describe symptoms of anxiety during the past month. Items are measured on a 4-point Likert scale ranging from 0 (not at all) to 4 (severely – it bothered me a lot), with higher scores indicating greater parental anxiety symptoms. The possible BAI total score range is 0–63, with scores less than 8 as minimal anxiety symptoms, scores between 8 and 15 as mild anxiety symptoms, scores between 16 and 25 as moderate anxiety symptoms, and scores greater than 25 as severe anxiety symptoms. Example items include “nervous” and “unable to relax.” This measure has high reliability (Beck et al., 1988; Fydrich, Dowdall, & Chambless, 1992; internal consistency = .94 in the current study), as well as validity (Fydrich et al., 1992).