Méthodes d'évaluation des troubles anxieux (2e partie)

Anxiety is a heterogeneous concept, characterized with its time course, its psychologi-cal and somatic symptoms, its frequent association with depression, psychosis, phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorders. Anxiety characterizes a part of personality (“anxiety-trait”) or a state, feelings at the moment of the examination. Anxiety slates have to evaluate all these aspects. Many slates exist, with many specificity. The aim of the practitioners is to define which aspects of anxiety in in tend to evaluate, in order to choose the adequate scale. Hamilton Anxiety Scale and STAI are the scales most often used.