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Complete hand-scoring kit (including manual and 25 record forms): $191.00.
BAI manual: $122.00
Package of 25 hand-scoring forms: $86.00.
Interpretive reports for the Q Local software costs between 3.60 and 2.90 per report depending on how many you purchase at once.
Q Local record forms (package of 25): $80.00.
Q-global software now available
All prices are in Canadian dollars and are accurate as of February 2016.
1990, 1993, 1997
Original (BAI; 1990), revised version (1993), primary care version (BAI-PC; 1997)
Primary: Anxiety Secondary: None identified
Anxiety symptoms
This instrument is intended to assess symptoms of anxiety and their severity. It is NOT intended to be a diagnostic instrument.
This measure is intended to assess symptoms and severity of anxiety
Adolescents and adults ages 12-80 (please note that the manual lists the age range as 17-80, but studies have been done validating the instrument with younger populations).
Self-report. Can also be administered verbally if necessary. Remote-on-screen administration available through Q-Global software (see ""Online Resources"" for more details)
Adolescent or adult being assessed.
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None.
4-point Likert scale from 0 (‘not at all’) to 3 (‘severely’).
5-10 minutes
None (self-report). Training required for verbal administration.
Scoring and interpretation requires a doctorate in psychology, education, or a related field with relevant training and experience in assessment, or a license to practice in a health or allied health care field (e.g. doctors, nurse practitioners, social workers, etc.) Scoring can be done manually or electronically with the Q Local Scoring and Reporting software. Scoring involves summing the values of the item responses.
The norms, reliability and validity statistics included in each measure profile are those reported by the author(s) of the measure. It is important to note that altering, adding or removing questions from a measure voids these reported statistics, possibly making the revised tool unreliable and invalid.
1,086 participants (all psychiatric outpatients)
The authors reported an internal consistency (alpha) coefficient of 0.92. This has been replicated by a large number of studies, with alphas ranging from 0.87 to 0.94. The authors reported a test-retest reliability of 0.75. Other studies have more or less confirmed this, with reliabilities ranging from 0.62 to 0.83. De Ayala et al. (2005) report that the average alpha over 43 studies was 0.91, and the average test-retest reliability over 12 studies was 0.66.
The authors reported moderate concurrent and divergent validity. Further studies have found generally good concurrent validity, but there have been mixed results with discriminative and divergent validity, with some authors reporting good validity and others reporting moderate or poor validity, particularly with regards to depression. Magán et al. (2008) suggest that the problems noted with divergent/discriminative validity may be due to the overlap in the definitions of anxiety and depression, rather than because of problems with the measure itself.
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Beck, A. T., Epstein, N., Brown, G., & Steer, R. A. (1988). An inventory for measuring clinical anxiety: Psychometric properties. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 56(6), 893-897.
Beck A.T., & Steer R.A. (2005). BAI Beck Anxiety Inventory Manual Swedish Version. Stockholm: Psykologiförlaget.
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De Beurs, E., Wilson, K.A., Chambless, D.L., Goldstein, A.J., & Feske, U. (1997). Convergent and divergent validity of the Beck Anxiety Inventory for patients with panic disorder and agoraphobia. Depression and Anxiety, 6(4), 140-146.
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Jolly, J.B., Aruffo, J.F., Wherry, J.N., & Livingston, R. (2003). The utility of the Beck Anxiety Inventory with inpatient adolescents. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 7(2), 95-106.
Kaviani, H., & Mousavi, A.S. (2008). Psychometric properties of the Persian version of Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI). Tehran University Medical Journal, 65(2), 136-140.
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Magán, I., Sanz, J., & Garía-Vera, M.P. (2008). Psychometric properties of a Spanish version of the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) in general population. The Spanish Journal of Psychology, 11(2), 626-640.
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Nordhagen, T. (2001). Beck Anxiety Inventory: Translation and validation of a Norwegian version. M.A., University of Bergen.
Osman, A., Hoffman, J., Barrios, F.X., Kopper, B.A., Breitenstein, J.L., & Hahn, S.K. (2002). Factor structure, reliability, and validity of the Beck Anxiety Inventory in adolescent psychiatric inpatients. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 58(4), 443-456.
Osman, A., Kopper, B.A., Barrios, F.X, Osman, J.R., & Wade, T. (1997). The Beck Anxiety Inventory: Reexamination of factor structure and psychometric properties. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 53(1), 7-14.
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Yook, S.P., & Kim, Z.S. (1997). A clinical study on the Korean version of the Beck Anxiety Inventory: Comparative study of patient and non-patient. Korean Journal of Clinical Psychology, 16(1), 185-197.
