Psychometric properties of the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory (GAI) and its short-form (GAI-SF) in a clinical and non-clinical sample of older adults

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1089-1097

  Johnco, Carly ^a   Knight, Ashleigh ^a   Tadic, Dusanka ^a   Wuthrich, Viviana M ^a   Pachana, Nancy A ^b   Oude Voshaar, Richard C ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Anxiety; Anxiety disorders; Geriatric; Geriatric Anxiety Inventory; Older adult; Questionnaires

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANXIETY; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ANXIETY INVENTORY; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDITY; AGED; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STANDARDS; VALIDATION STUDY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84931828466     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: 1741203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610214001586     Document Type: Article

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