(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved). Additional research is recommended to better guide BAI interpretation across age groups and sexes/genders. This study helps support the use of the BAI as a reliable and valid instrument for assessing anxiety symptoms in veterans. Additionally, a cut score of 18 best differentiated between veterans with and without anxiety and related disorders. Factor analyses indicated that a three-factor model best fit the veteran data. Male and older veterans were found to have lower BAI scores than their respective counterparts. Results revealed that the BAI performed similarly across veteran and normative samples. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were also conducted. BAI scores were compared across samples and various veteran subgroups. Secondary data, including initial BAI scores, demographic characteristics, treatment location, and diagnoses originally recorded during the course of usual VHA care over a 5-year period for 57,088 individual veterans, were extracted through the VA Informatics and Computing Infrastructure. military veterans receiving treatment through the VHA. The present study compared the normative data reported by Beck and Steer (1993) to secondary data generated by a nationwide sample of U.S. However, there is preliminary evidence that the BAI may perform uniquely in veteran samples, emphasizing the need for a comprehensive investigation of the BAI in this population. Keywords.The Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) is widely used within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), both as an assessment tool and as a part of measurement-based care practices. The psychometric properties of SAS-R are found to be robust enough to be recommended for screening anxiety symptoms in the Pakistani community. Furthermore, a cut-off score of 30 was determined using ROC curve analysis, obtaining a sensitivity index of 81.4 %, specificity index of 77.66%, the positive predictive power of 53.3%, and negative predictive power of 93% in the community sample. The Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) is a tool that can be used to measure the severity of an individual’s anxiety symptoms. SAS-R has a positive correlation with BAI and a significant negative correlation with LOT-R for optimism subscale and pessimism subscale. The CES-D also provides cutoff scores (e.g., 16 or greater) that aid in identifying individuals at risk for clinical depression, with good sensitivity and specificity and high internal consistency (Lewinsohn, Seeley, Roberts, & Allen, 1997). The convergent and divergent validity was determined by comparing it with Urdu translations of Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) (Raza, 2013) and Life Orientation Scale-Revised (LOT-R) (Shaheen, Tabassum, & Andleeb, 2015), respectively. Scores range from 0 to 60, with high scores indicating greater depressive symptoms. The exploratory factor analysis revealed two factors in SAS-R (i.e., cognitive-affective and somatic), accounting for 34.48% cumulative variance. A total score of between 0 and 7 on the BAI indicates minimal anxiety, 8-15 indicates mild anxiety, 16-25 indicates moderate anxiety and between 26 and 63. Cronbach's alpha reliability of SAS-R was found to be 0.90. The validity and reliability estimates of Siddiqui Anxiety Scale-Revised (SAS-R) with 27 items were determined in the main study, using a convenient sample of university students (N=494) including 215 males and 279 females with a mean age of 20.8 years. A pilot study with 15 males and 15 females (mean age = 25.07 years) was carried out to reassess its language and comprehensiveness, followed by a committee review by four mental health professionals. Abstract : This study aimed to determine the psychometric properties of the Siddiqui Anxiety Scale (Hasnain & Siddiqui, 1993) in the Pakistani community.
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