Generalized Anxiety Inventory
A nursing team is utilizing the Generalized Anxiety Inventory to measure anxiety on patients admitted to the older adult mental health unit. The team wants to ensure that the instrument reliably measures anxiety in their patient population. In reviewing literature on the psychometric properties of the instrument, which of the following should the nurses evaluate to determine reliability of the measure?
| A. | Anecdotal evidence from colleagues who have used the instrument.
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| B. | Cronbach’s alpha to measure internal consistency.
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| C. | SBAR evaluation (Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation).
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| D. | Forest plots to compare among studies.
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