Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI)
| Name of questionnaire | Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) |
| Type of questionnaire-description,age | Assesses anxiety severity in adults |
| Number of items | 21 questions |
| Number of domains / categories | 2 |
| Name of categories/domains | Each item is descriptive of subjective somatic or panic-related symptoms of anxiety |
| Scaling of items | Likert scale: "not at all" to "severely" |
| Scoring available: with permission or free | Fee |
| Scoring Test-retest reliability | Yes, test-retest reliability over 1 week, r = .75 |
| Scoring Internal consistency | Yes, Cronbach's alpha = .92 |
| Validity | Yes, correlated with modified Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale; good discriminant validity |
| Language | English |
| Translations in other languages (if yes, then list the languages) | Spanish |
| Developer name | AT Beck, MD |
| Developer contact information | abeck@mail.med.upenn.edu |
| Availability of questionnaire: needs permission from developer, cost or freely available | copyrighted, available for purchase from Psychological Corporation, 555 Academic Court, San Antonio, TX 78204-2498, USA. |
| Limitations | BAI may not adequately differentiate between depression and anxiety in a primary care population. Measures anxiety only over the prior 1 week period. |
| Link to the questionnaire (if available) | Click Here to View the Questionaire |
| Other comments | Patient-rated scale. BAI discriminated anxious diagnostic groups (panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, etc.) from nonanxious diagnostic groups major depression, dysthymic disorder |
| References (original publication) | Beck, A.T., et al., An Inventory for Measuring Clinical Anxiety: Psychometric Properties. Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology, 1988. 56(6): pp. 893–897. |
| Muntingh AD, van der Feltz-Cornelis CM, van Marwijk HW, Spinhoven P, Penninx BW, van Balkom AJ. Is the Beck Anxiety Inventory a good tool to assess the severity of anxiety? A primary care study in the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA). BMC Fam Pract. 2011 Jul 4;12:66. |
