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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)
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BACKGROUND: Appropriate management of anxiety disorders in primary care requires clinical assessment and monitoring of the severity of the anxiety. This study focuses on the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) as a severity indicator for anxiety in primary care patients with different anxiety disorders (social phobia, panic disorder with or without agoraphobia, agoraphobia or generalized anxiety disorder), depressive disorders or no disorder (controls). METHODS: Participants were 1601 primary care patients participating in the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA). Regression analyses were used to compare the mean BAI scores of the different diagnostic groups and to correct for age and gender. RESULTS: Patients with any anxiety disorder had a significantly higher mean score than the controls. A significantly higher score was found for patients with panic disorder and agoraphobia compared to patients with agoraphobia only or social phobia only. BAI scores in patients with an anxiety disorder with a co-morbid anxiety disorder and in patients with an anxiety disorder with a co-morbid depressive disorder were significantly higher than BAI scores in patients with an anxiety disorder alone or patients with a depressive disorder alone. Depressed and anxious patients did not differ significantly in their mean scores. CONCLUSIONS: The results suggest that the BAI may be used as a severity indicator of anxiety in primary care patients with different anxiety disorders. However, because the instrument seems to reflect the severity of depression as well, it is not a suitable instrument to discriminate between anxiety and depression in a primary care population.
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BackgroundAn examination of generalized anxiety disorder and dysthymic disorder by latent class analysis
Rhebergen, D., van der Steenstraten, I. M., Sunderland, M., de Graaf, R., ten Have, M., Lamers, F., Penninx, B. W. J. H., & Andrews, G. (2013) · Psychological Medicine · doi:10.1017/s0033291713002225 · Cited by 15
“Finally, previously the BAI has been disputed for its bias towards measurement of symptoms linked to panic (Cox et al. 1996) and lack of power to discriminate between anxiety and depression (Muntingh et al. 2011), although inconsistent results exist (Beck et al. 1988).”
ResultGladwyn-Khan, M., & Morris, R. (2023) · Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy · doi:10.1017/s135246582200042x · Cited by 13
Revisión crítica sobre los intrumentos para la evaluación psiquiátrica en atención primaria
Tejada, P. A., Jaramillo, L. E., Pedraza, R. S., & Sharma, V. K. (2014) · Revista de la Facultad de Medicina · doi:10.15446/revfacmed.v62n1.43759 · Cited by 12
“En cuanto al abuso de sustancias, stá presente en uno de cada cinco pacientes en contextos médicos generales pero solo al 20% de ellos se les realizan preguntas de tamización para su detección (5).”
BackgroundInfluentialEvaluation of Quality of Life and Emotional Disturbances in Patients with Diabetic Retinopathy
Saitakis, G., Roukas, D., Hatziagelaki, E. E., Efstathiou, V., THEODOSSIADIS, P. G., & Rizos, E. N. (2023) · European Journal of Investigation in Health Psychology and Education · doi:10.3390/ejihpe13110175 · Cited by 16
MacNeil, B. A., Hudson, C. C., & Leung, P. (2018) · Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity · doi:10.1007/s40519-018-0586-y · Cited by 12
Validation of Two Screening Tools for Anxiety in Hemodialysis Patients
Nadort, E., van Geenen, N. J. K., Schouten, R. W., Boeschoten, R. E., Shaw, P. C., Vleming, L. J., Schouten, M., Farhat, K., Dekker, F. W., van Oppen, P., et al. (2022) · Journal of Personalized Medicine · doi:10.3390/jpm12071077 · Cited by 11
“This variety in cut-off values for the BAI could be attributable to differences in patient characteristics, but could also be due to an overlap between anxiety symptoms and the symptoms of chronic disease and depression [6,15,19].”
BackgroundUse of Virtual Reality as a Tool to Overcome the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder of Pensioners
Kovar, I. (2019) · International Journal on Advanced Science Engineering and Information Technology · doi:10.18517/ijaseit.9.3.8245 · Cited by 11
Kellett, S., Bee, C., Aadahl, V., Headley, E., & Delgadillo, J. (2020) · Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy · doi:10.1017/s1352465820000442 · Cited by 11
“The BAI was selected as the primary outcome measure because of (a) its excellent psychometric properties and (b) as the measure is a good index of anxiety severity in primary care patients across a variety of anxiety disorders (Muntingh et al., 2011).”
MethodPanic Disorder in Primary Care: The Effects of a Team-Based Intervention
Gensichen, J. S., Hiller, T. S., Breitbart, J., Brettschneider, C., Teismann, T., Schumacher, U., Lukaschek, K., Schelle, M., Schneider, N., Sommer, M., et al. (2019) · Deutsches Ärzteblatt international · doi:10.3238/arztebl.2019.0159 · Cited by 86
Association of state and trait anxiety with oral health status among adult dental patients.
Veeraboina, N., Doshi, D., Kulkarni, S., Patanapu, S. K., Dantala, S. N., & Srilatha, A. (2020) · Acta bio-medica dell'Ateneo parmense/Acta biomedica · doi:10.23750/abm.v91i3.8986 · Cited by 12
“Apart from State and Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A) (29), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) (30), Generalized Anxiety Disorder -7 (GAD -7) (31) and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale- Anxiety (32) (HADSA) can be used to measure the anxiety levels.”
MethodYoshimura, A., Matsushita, S., Kimura, M., Yoneda, J., Maesato, H., Yokoyama, A., & Higuchi, S. (2022) · BMC Psychiatry · doi:10.1186/s12888-022-04455-4 · Cited by 11
“The total SDS and BAI scores were then compared among the three drinking pattern groups after discharge.”
MethodInfluentialSomatic anxiety in patients with laryngopharyngeal reflux
Kang, J. W., Lee, M. K., Lee, Y. C., Ko, S., & Eun, Y. (2023) · Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology · doi:10.1002/lio2.1138 · Cited by 10
“17,18 Although BAI may not be specific for various types of anxiety, the simplicity of BAI makes it convenient to use in primary care.”
BackgroundMethodVaziri‐harami, R., Kazemi, S., Vaziri‐harami, S., Hazari, V., Farokh, P., & Valadbeigi, T. (2024) · Health Science Reports · doi:10.1002/hsr2.2267 · Cited by 9
“23,24 According to our research results, it is imperative to conduct further research into the prevalence of anxiety and depression during the menopausal transition to recognize the predisposing factors for the emergence of such indications among middle ‐ aged women.”
BackgroundMcKowen, J. W., Isenberg, B. M., Carrellas, N. W., Zulauf-McCurdy, C. A., Ward, N. E., Fried, R. S., & Wilens, T. E. (2018) · American Journal on Addictions · doi:10.1111/ajad.12824 · Cited by 9
Danner, U. N., Sternheim, L. C., van Oppen, P., Hendriks, G., van Balkom, T. J. L. M., & Cath, D. C. (2022) · Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders · doi:10.1016/j.jocrd.2022.100759 · Cited by 9
Ivanets, N. N., Kinkulkina, M. A., Avdeeva, T. I., & Sysoeva, V. P. (2016) · S S Korsakov Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry · doi:10.17116/jnevro20161166131-41 · Cited by 10
Functional training program: the impact on depression, anxiety and sleep quality in adolescents
de Sousa, I., Nunes, R. S. M., Corrêa, H. D. L., & Vieira, E. C. (2020) · Sport Sciences for Health · doi:10.1007/s11332-020-00679-7 · Cited by 9
“The BAI scale used in the present work has been widely used in clinical research, mainly as a measure of general anxiety [31] and it has been suggested as a good tool to measure a severity indicator of anxiety in primary care patients with different anxiety disorders [32].”
MethodAnxiety, a significant risk factor for coronary artery disease: what is the best index
Rezaee, M., Darroudi, H., Etemad, L., Shad, A. N., Zardast, Z., Kohansal, H., Ghayour‐Mobarhan, M., Sadeghian, F., Moohebati, M., Esmaily, H., et al. (2024) · BMC Psychiatry · doi:10.1186/s12888-024-05798-w · Cited by 8
“It is a 21-ques-tion inquiry that investigates the frequency of the patient’s anxiety symptoms [17].”
BackgroundPalmer, G. A., Happe, M. C., Paxson, J. M., Jurek, B. K. W., & Olson, S. A. (2016) · Military Psychology · doi:10.1037/mil0000117 · Cited by 8
“The BAI has been widely used in clinical and research settings as a self-report screening measure for general anxiety (Muntingh et al., 2011; Piotrowski, 1999).”
MethodDarroudi, S., Eslamiyeh, M., Al-Fayyadh, K. K. J., Bidary, M. Z., Danesteh, S., Gouji, A. H., Darban, R. A., Esmaily, H., Ghayour‐Mobarhan, M., Moohebati, M., et al. (2023) · International Journal of Public Health · doi:10.3389/ijph.2023.1606014 · Cited by 9
“This questionnaire was mainly used to evaluate anxiety symptoms frequency, but due to previous results, it was utilized to identify the severity of anxiety in this study subjects [39].”
Methodvon Klipstein, L., Servaas, M. N., Lamers, F., Schoevers, R. A., Wardenaar, K. J., & Riese, H. (2022) · doi:10.31234/osf.io/6vtew · Cited by 8
Internet-based treatment for vulvodynia (EMBLA) – Study protocol for a randomised controlled study
Hess Engström, A., Kullinger, M., Jawad, I., Hesselman, S., Buhrman, M., Högberg, U., & Skalkidou, A. (2021) · Internet Interventions · doi:10.1016/j.invent.2021.100396 · Cited by 7
“The Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) is a scale that measures anxiety using a list of 21 anxiety symptoms and has high reliability and good validity (Beck et al., 1988; Muntingh et al., 2011).”
BackgroundGillard, J. A., Gormley, S., Griffiths, K., Hitchcock, C., Dalgleish, T., & Stretton, J. (2021) · Journal of Affective Disorders · doi:10.1016/j.jad.2021.07.083 · Cited by 11
Dialysis withdrawal and symptoms of anxiety and depression: a prospective cohort study
El-Magd, E. S., Schouten, R. W., Nadort, E., Shaw, P. K. C., Smets, Y. F. C., Vleming, L., Dekker, F. W., Broekman, B. F. P., Honig, A., & Siegert, C. E. H. (2023) · BMC Nephrology · doi:10.1186/s12882-023-03267-2 · Cited by 7
Virtual Reality as Support of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Social Anxiety Disorder
Kovar, I. (2018) · International Journal on Advanced Science Engineering and Information Technology · doi:10.18517/ijaseit.8.4.5904 · Cited by 7
“The total score ranges from 0 to 63, with a higher score indicating a great feeling of anxiety [14].”
BackgroundAnxiety during the long-term course of obsessive-compulsive disorder
Rickelt, J., Viechtbauer, W., Marcelis, M. C., van den Heuvel, O. A., van Oppen, P., Eikelenboom, M., & Schruers, K. R. J. (2023) · Journal of Affective Disorders · doi:10.1016/j.jad.2023.10.078 · Cited by 6
Shin, D. (2019) · Health Care For Women International · doi:10.1080/07399332.2019.1621868 · Cited by 6
“To measure the degree of depression, the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) was used, while the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) (Muntingh et al., 2011) was used to measure the degree of anxiety.”
MethodBarends, H., van der Horst, H. E., van der Wouden, J. C., Dessel, N. C.-V., Dekker, J., & Hoekstra, T. (2025) · BMJ Open · doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2023-083276 · Cited by 5
Associations between fetal movement and maternal-fetal attachment in late pregnancy
Ayala, K., Falcioni, L., Eilbott, J., Lamore, J., Voegtline, K., & Rutherford, H. J. V. (2025) · Early Human Development · doi:10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2025.106351 · Cited by 7
Melis, Y., Apicella, E., Macario, M., Dozio, E., Bentivoglio, G., & Mendolicchio, L. (2020) · PubMed · Cited by 5
Lane, V., Lane, M., Sturrock, A., & Rickards, H. E. (2021) · Journal of Neuropsychiatry · doi:10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20110293 · Cited by 5
Zhang, H., Liu, Z., Zheng, H., Xu, T., Liu, L., Xu, T., Yuan, T., & Han, X. (2024) · BMC Public Health · doi:10.1186/s12889-024-18015-w · Cited by 10
“It has good reliability, validity, internal consistency, and convergence [51, 52].”
BackgroundOlariu, E., Castro-Rodríguez, J. I., Álvarez, P., Garnier, C., Reinoso, M., Martín‐Lopez, L. M., Alonso, J., & Forero, C. G. (2014) · Quality of Life Research · doi:10.1007/s11136-014-0814-5 · Cited by 5
“Clinical guidelines and researchers advise using severity assessment in order to improve detection rates [14, 15].”
BackgroundXiang, Z., Li, X., & Ma, Y. (2025) · European Journal of Cancer Care · doi:10.1155/ecc/1656569 · Cited by 4
“Among these studies, 5 reported anxiety as a primary outcome measure: 3 used the HADS scale [37], 1 used the BAI scale [38], and 1 used the BDI-II scale [39].”
Yusuf, A., & Muhammad, A. Y. (2024) · Journal of Educational Computing Research · doi:10.1177/07356331241270707 · Cited by 6
“Additionally, self-report measures such as the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI, Beck et al., 1988) and Hamilton Anxiety Scale (HAM-A, Hamilton, 1969) have been extensively validated and employed to assess individuals ’ anxious states (Hallit et al., 2020; Muntingh et al., 2011; Oh et al., 2018).”
Ranjbartabar, H., Maddah, A., & Kavakli, M. (2015) · IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS) · doi:10.1109/icis.2015.7166621 · Cited by 4
“There is evidence that appropriate management of anxiety disorders in primary care requires clinical assessment and monitoring of the severity of the anxiety.”
BackgroundDessel, N. C.-V., van der Wouden, J. C., Dekker, J., Rosmalen, J. G. M., & van der Horst, H. E. (2017) · Journal of Psychosomatic Research · doi:10.1016/j.jpsychores.2017.06.010 · Cited by 4
“…symptoms and anxiety (Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology, QIDS-SR (Rush et al., 2003) and Beck Anxiety Inventory, BAI (Beck et al., 1988; Muntingh et al., 2011)), stressful life events (Life Events Questionnaire, LEQ (Garnefski and Kraaij, 2001)) and physical inactivity (International…”
BackgroundHicks, S. (2019) · The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist · doi:10.1017/s1754470x19000126 · Cited by 5
“Research has found the BAI to be a reliable and valid means of assessing the severity of anxiety (Muntingh et al., 2011).”
Psychiatric challenges in patients treated with peritoneal dialysis
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Metadata
- Authors
- Muntingh, A. D., van der Feltz-Cornelis, C. M., van Marwijk, H. W., Spinhoven, P., Penninx, B. W., & van Balkom, A. J.
- Affiliations
- Trimbos Institute (NL)
- Leiden University (NL)
- University Medical Center Groningen (NL)
- Corresponding author
- Muntingh, Anna DT
- Spinhoven, Philip
- Penninx, Brenda WJH
- Venue
- BMC Family Practice
- Published
- 2011-07-04
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 66-66
- ISSN
- 1471-2296 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3224107
- OpenAlex
- W2097904666
- Cited by
- 147
- References
- 37
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 5.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- Funders
- Universiteit Leiden (10‐000‐1002)
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- GGZ inGeest
- Rivierduinen
- GGZ Friesland
- GGZ Drenthe
- Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek van de Gezondheidszorg (10-000-1002)
- Trimbos-instituut
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
- Keywords
- Beck Anxiety Inventory, anxiety levels, anxiety disorders, primary care, panic disorder with agoraphobia, agoraphobia, social anxiety disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, comorbid depression, NESDA
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Anxiety, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Netherlands, Primary Health Care, Psychological Tests, Severity of Illness Index, Young Adult
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