Portuguese version of the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory: Transcultural adaptation and psychometric validation

Abstract

These findings provide initial evidence that the Portuguese version of the GAI is a valid and reliable measure for assessing late-life anxiety and highlights the need for possible modifications of the instrument before being used in other languages and cultural groups.

Psychological Correlates of Fear of Falling in the Elderly

“…Scores higher than 8-9 points correspond to the presence of symptoms of potential severe anxiety. The Portuguese version of the scale has high internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha ¼ .96), with ICC values of 0.995 for test-retest and good concurrent validity with the State Anxiety Inventory (r ¼ .631, p < .001); the Geriatric Depression Scale (r ¼ .860, p < .001); and the General Health Questionnaire (r ¼ .763, p < .001) (Ribeiro, Paúl, Simões, & Firmino, 2011).…”

A quasi-experimental study of a reminiscence program focused on autobiographical memory in institutionalized older adults with cognitive impairment

“…Authors from the Portuguese version found a cut-off point for severe anxiety symptoms at levels of 8-9 (Ribeiro et al, 2011). Participants are asked to agree or disagree with the 20 sentences describing how they felt during the last week.…”

“…The Geriatric Anxiety Inventory (GAI) (Pachana et al, 2007), validated for the Portuguese population (Ribeiro, Paúl, Simões, & Firmino, 2011) was used for assessing anxiety symptoms. Authors from the Portuguese version found a cut-off point for severe anxiety symptoms at levels of 8-9 (Ribeiro et al, 2011).…”

Initial phase of adaptation of Memory Alteration Test (M@T) in a Portuguese sample

“…To detect cognitive deficits we used two brief screening instruments, namely MMSE (Morgado et al, 2009), the widely used brief screening instrument, and MoCA (Freitas et al, 2011), developed to screen milder forms of cognitive impairment through the assessment of six cognitive domains. To assess depressive and anxious symptoms in older adults we used Geriatric Depression Scale contained 30 items (Barreto et al, 2008) and Geriatric Anxiety Inventory (Ribeiro et al, 2011), respectively. The presence of subjective memory complains was assess by SMC (Ginó et al, 2008), and finally, the M@T-PT was used.…”