Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI)
| Information about Measure | |
|---|---|
| First Name | Brandon |
| Last Name | Kohrt |
| https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brandon_Kohrt | |
| Affiliation | The George Washington University |
| Other means of contacting author (e.g., website, Academia.edu, ResearchGate) | — |
| Mental health assessment tool that was adapted/developed/validated | Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) |
| Mental health condition assessed | Anxiety Disorders |
| Idiom of distress included, if any | Not Applicable |
| Lifestage of interest | Adult (General) |
| Age range (age – age) | — |
| Country or countries where tool was developed/adapted/validated | Nepal |
| Language(s) of the adapted/developed/validated tool | Nepali |
| Clinical or community sample? | Mixed clinical and community sample |
| Subpopulation in which tool was developed/validated (e.g., tool was developed and tested among middle-class women)? | Four main populations were employed for this study: (1) an outpatient clinical population from Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Maharajgunj (TUTH); (2) a community sample with psychiatric illness from the district headquarters in Jumla, (3) a community sample with no psychiatric illness from the district headquarters in Jumla, (4) a community sample from Jumla that did not receive psychiatric diagnoses. |
| Development procedures | Culturally adapted and validated |
| If validated, what was the gold standard? | Diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder by a local psychiatric professional |
| Description of other development procedures, if applicable | — |
| Cronbach’s alpha | 0.89 |
| Sensitivity | 0.89 |
| Spec | 0.91 |
| Other information about tool (e.g., additional psychometrics [NPV, PPV, Youden’s index, diagnostic odds ratio]) | — |
| Links to development/adaptation/validation studies and/or previous studies using the tool | Kohrt BA, Kunz RD, Koirala NR, Sharma VD, Nepal MK: Validation of the Nepali Version of the Beck Anxiety Inventory. Journal of the Institute of Medicine 2003, 25(1):1-4. |
| Notes when administering the tool |
This tool is intended for both clinical and research applications for the assessment of anxiety among adults in Nepal. The tool should be administered verbally in Nepali by a trained research assistant or clinician. The psychometric properties listed in this entry reflect a cut-off score of 13/14. Psychometric properties for a range of cut-offs are included in the cited article. “The items “indigestion,” “sweating,” “face flushed,” and “feeling faint” may impair the validity and reliability of the instruments (for more information- see the cited article). Removal of some somatic items may be warranted because overall poor physical health, especially in rural Nepal, may inflate scores of psychological distress. |