PMID: 11607943Oct 19, 2001Paper

Psychometric properties of the state part of the Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) in geriatric patients

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
Kari KvaalKnut Engedal

Abstract

A conspicuously high score on the state part of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) has been observed among geriatric inpatients who are neither demented nor critically ill; 43% of them had a sumscore that, according to Spielberger's criteria, would reflect clinically relevant anxiety symptoms. To explore the reasons for this high score. 101 geriatric inpatients and 68 healthy controls of similar age, living at home and recruited through senior citizen centres participated in a controlled cross-sectional study. High item-scores were more frequent on the symptom-negative items than on the symptom-positive items. Multi-group factor analysis produced two factors termed 'well-being' and 'nervousness', which had a moderate correlation (0.61). The intercept was much higher on 'well-being' than on 'nervousness', showing that a lack of well-being contributes significantly to the high score on the STAI. This confounds the sumscore. However, the geriatric inpatients nevertheless had a high score on the factor 'nervousness'. Female controls scored higher than males on both factors, whereas among the geriatric patients neither age nor gender related to them. The STAI state sumscore is a biased indicator of anxiety in geriatric inpatie...Continue Reading

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