Psychiatry

Is the Beck Anxiety Inventory a good tool to assess the severity of anxiety?

Results from a 1601 participants 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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