Twenty-one common anxiety symptoms rated by how much they bothered you during the past month, including today.
Method and research sourcesBAI measures the severity of 21 anxiety symptoms, with particular sensitivity to bodily and panic-like experiences. It describes recent symptom burden rather than explaining its cause.
Each answer contributes 0–3 points. The 21 answers are summed into a total from 0 to 63 and grouped into four conventional symptom ranges.
The original validation, the publisher's official page, and the Ukrainian psychometric adaptation are listed below.
Aaron T. Beck, Norman Epstein, Gary Brown, Robert A. Steer
Pearson Clinical
Iryna Mazhak, Danylo Sudyn
Resources are selected by the anxiety topic, not by your score.
How to distinguish an anxious prediction from a problem you can address, what to try when tense, and when to seek professional help. A practical example and the limits of self-help.
How to get through a familiar panic attack, when symptoms need medical attention, and how an attack differs from panic disorder. Treatment and returning to everyday activities.
Complete the 17-item Social Phobia Inventory for fear, avoidance, and physical symptoms during the past week.
Take the 10-item PSS-10 and reflect on how unpredictable, uncontrollable, and overloaded life felt during the last month.
Complete the 21-item BDI-II and receive a careful, non-diagnostic interpretation of depressive symptoms over the past two weeks.
Complete the 18-item OCI-R screener and review six symptom dimensions with careful, non-diagnostic interpretation.
No. It shows symptom intensity on this questionnaire; diagnosis requires a broader professional assessment.
Yes. Several BAI items are physical, so health conditions and medication effects can raise the total.
Rate the past month, including today, using the response that best describes how much each symptom bothered you.
