The Geriatric Anxiety Inventory (GAI) consists of 20 “Agree/Disagree” items designed to assess typical common anxiety symptoms. The measurements of somatic symptoms with the instrument are limited in order to minimize confusion between symptoms common to anxiety and general medical conditions.

Results from this study suggested an optimum cutoff score of 9 for GAI (100% sensitivity and 60% specificity) and a score of 2 for GAI-SF (100% sensitivity and 46.2% specificity) for identifying those with an anxiety disorder diagnosis.

The GAI is a self-report scale consisting of 20 dichotomous items (agree/disagree), modeled after the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS). 17,68 Items originated from an initial item pool of 60, based on a large variety of anxiety instruments, in order to reflect the primary domains of anxiety (such as worry, anxiety sensitivity, and cognition ...

Receiver operating characteristic analysis indicated a cut-point of 10/11 for the detection of DSM-IV Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) in the psychogeriatric sample, with 83% of patients correctly classified with a specificity of 84% and a sensitivity of 75%.

This instrument can be found on page 16 of “Development and validation of the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory.”‚ available online at: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:7924/gb_ig.pdf

The GAI is a simple 20-item questionnaire for quickly screening adults aged 50 and over for anxiety disorders. The straightforward self-report ‘agree-disagree’ scale lets practitioners know if they need to pursue a diagnosis of an anxiety disorder.

We examined the psychometric properties, internal scale reliability and validity, of two geriatric anxiety measures: the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory (GAI) and Geriatric Anxiety Scale (GAS).

Jul 5, 2020 · The GAI is a new 20-item self-report or nurse-administered scale that measures dimensional anxiety in elderly people. It has sound psychometric properties. Initial clinical testing indicates that it is able to discriminate between those with and without any anxiety disorder and between those with an …

In a study of older home care patients, the GAI demonstrated strong clinical utility in detecting anxiety dis-orders (Diefenbach, Tolin, Meunier, & Gilliam, 2009). For the stated reasons, the GAI holds promise as a measure of anxiety in older adults, but it pos-sesses some features that some clinicians may not prefer.

Anxiety in later life is a major clinical problem, with notable barriers to accurate assessment. The Geriatric Anxiety Scale (GAS) and Geriatric Anxiety Inventory (GAI) represent two elder-specific assessment tools that have recently been developed and validated.