title: Development and validation of a brief self-report measure of agitation: the Brief Agitation Measure.
abstract: Emerging evidence indicates that agitation is an ominous precursor to imminent death by suicide, yet measures of it are few, and to our knowledge, no self-report measure of agitation exists. To fill this gap, we have developed the Brief Agitation Measure (BAM), which is designed as a brief measure to assess agitation. In this article, we provide preliminary evidence from 2 studies examining the reliability and validity of the BAM in an undergraduate sample as well as a clinical sample. We close with a discussion of the limitations of the studies and implications of our findings.
authors: Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4301, USA.
authors: Jessica D
authors: JD
authors: Ribeiro
authors: Theodore W
authors: TW
authors: Bender
authors: Edward A
authors: EA
authors: Selby
authors: Jennifer L
authors: JL
authors: Hames
authors: Thomas E
authors: TE
authors: Joiner
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D057566:Self Report; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*; D055815:Young Adult; D000092864:Suicide Prevention