Convergent validity was assessed by correlating GAI and GAI-SF scores with total scores on the BAI and SRQ-20 using Pearson correlation test.

Cut‐off scores were similar as well; for example, ROC analyses indicated the same cut point of 8/9 for all anxiety disorders, with a sensitivity of 88% and a specificity of 80%, in the Portuguese GAI (It should be noted that large cross‐cultural studies of anxiety are absent in the literature, whereas several such studies (e.g., The GAI has been used in a variety of international studies examining specific relationships between anxiety and other variables or outcomes in older adults, as well as sequelae of anxiety symptoms, disorders, and interventions in clinical populations. Psychometric properties of the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory (GAI) and its short-form (GAI-SF) in a clinical and non-clinical sample of older adults.
This article discusses reasons for developing the test, processes of test construction, description of the most recent versions of the test, issues in developing culturally‐appropriate normative data, adoption of the tests by researchers and clinicians, and future development plans for the test.Accurately assessing anxiety in later life is of great clinical importance.Age‐appropriate screening tools have maximum efficacy.The Geriatric Anxiety Inventory is an age‐appropriate tool to screen for anxiety in older adults.The GAI has been translated into several languages which has facilitated cross‐national research.The GAI and its translations have been developed with cultural appropriateness in mind.In Australia, the population is ageing, with adults over age 65 currently at 13.6% of the total population, a figure that is expected to rise to approximately 25% by 2056 (Clinically significant anxiety is at least as common in later life as depression (Anxiety disorders are also more prevalent in older adults with chronic general medical conditions and are highly comorbid with depressive disorders (Comorbid depression and anxiety in later life present particular challenges for mental health care providers.

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Maia LC, Durante AMG, Ramos LR.

3222.0Population by age and sex, Australian states and territories, June 2010. The introduction of the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory and its variations has made an impact on assessment of anxiety research internationally, contributing to the growing global interest in the topic of late‐life anxiety. These have been field tested in various smaller cohorts; a large field trial is currently under way.With increasing numbers of older people seeking treatment, mental health professionals will need to develop greater awareness, understanding, and appreciation of psychiatric disorders in later life to deliver optimally effective services to this population (Anxiety in later life is relatively common in older populations but remains under‐detected and treated.

Psychometric properties of the Geriatric Anxiety Scale: Comparison to the Beck Anxiety Inventory and Geriatric Anxiety Inventory.

This is an unprecedented time. The standard translation approach of a translation and independent back‐translation checked for accuracy in the original language has been employed with all translations.

Address for correspondence: Mônica Sanches Yassuda.

Validation of the Brazilian Portuguese Version of Geriatric Anxiety Inventory – GAI-BR.

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2009;25:1455-65.25. Questionário Sócio-Demográfico da ABIPEME. During follow-up assessment, correlations of 0.75 (p = 0.002) between the GAI and the BAI, and of 0.58 (p = 0.031) between the GAI-SF and the BAI, were found. Also, a sub-sample of the group who was re-assessed (n = 15) completed the BAI.There were no significant differences between the baseline and follow-up sub-sample (n = 33) (mean age = 73.81, SD = 6.51; mean schooling = 4.19, SD = 3.04; mean MMSE = 23.94, SD = 3.80) and the overall group of normal controls (n = 55).
This trend has been duplicated in France and French‐speaking Canada and Portugal and Portuguese‐speaking Brazil. Accurate identification of anxiety symptoms is often complicated by their similarity to the symptoms of other mental and physical disorders, as well as to medication side effects common in older populations (Measurement of psychiatric conditions in later life is important but poses challenges to the clinician. Martiny C, Silva ACO, Nardi AE, Pachana NA. Barczak DS.

In general, the psychological assessment of older adults is often challenging due to the frequent comorbidity of mental and physical health problems, presence of multiple medications and medication interactions, as well as age‐related sensory and cognitive deficits (Until recently, the majority of assessment instruments used to study anxiety in later life have been developed for use with younger populations, and thus the psychometric properties of these instruments have remained largely unexplored with regard to older adult samples (There is also the issue of the validity and reliability of psychometric instruments when used on populations other than those specifically targeted in their original development.



Validação de escala para rastreamento de depressão em idosos: importância de um teste de aplicação rápida.





Geriatric Anxiety Scale: Item response theory analysis, differential item functioning, and creation of a ten-item short form (GAS-10).