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Beck Anxiety Inventory

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The Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) (Beck et al. 1988; Beck and Steer 1993) is a 21-item inventory which identifies anxiety symptoms and quantifies their intensity. Respondents are asked to rate how much they have been bothered by each item over the past week, including today, on a four-point scale ranging from 0 (“not at all”) to 3 (“severely – I could barely stand it”). Items are summed, resulting in a total score ranging from 0 to 63, with higher scores representing greater levels of anxiousness (Table 1).

Beck Anxiety Inventory, Table 1 Anxiety categorization by score (Beck and Steer 1993)
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  1. Departments of Psychiatry and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO, USA

    Amy J. Starosta

  2. Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center, Denver, CO, USA

    Lisa A. Brenner

  3. University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA

    Lisa A. Brenner

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Starosta, A.J., Brenner, L.A. (2018). Beck Anxiety Inventory. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57111-9_1972

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