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.