| Title |
Assessment of anxiety in older adults: a review of self-report measures
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Clinical Interventions in Aging, April 2018
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| DOI | 10.2147/cia.s114100 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Michela Balsamo, Fedele Cataldi, Leonardo Carlucci, Beth Fairfield |
| Abstract |
With increasing numbers of older adults in the general population, anxiety will become a widespread problem in late life and one of the major causes of health care access contributing to high societal and individual costs. Unfortunately, the detection of anxiety disorders in late life is complicated by a series of factors that make it different from assessment in younger cohorts, such as differential symptom presentation, high comorbidity with medical and mental disorders, the aging process, and newly emergent changes in life circumstances. This review covers commonly and currently used self-report inventories for assessing anxiety in older adults. For each tool, psychometric data is investigated in depth. In particular, information about reliability, validity evidence based on data from clinical and nonclinical samples of older adults, and availability of age-appropriate norms are provided. Finally, guidance for clinical evaluation and future research are proposed in an effort to highlight the importance of clinical assessment in the promotion of clinically relevant therapeutic choices. |
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