A client has been treated with medication and psychotherapy for generalized anxiety disorder. Discharge from treatment is being contemplated. To obtain an objective measure of treatment success, the nurse will:
1. Elicit information about client satisfaction with treatment
2. Ask the client whether he is experiencing anxiety at or below the mild level
3. Administer the Hamilton Anxiety Scale
4. Use the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale
ANS: 3
A rating scale will give the most objective measure of the degree to which anxiety has been ef-fectively treated. The Hamilton Anxiety Scale would be the more appropriate to use since the scale mentioned in option 4 is specific for OCD. Options 1 and 2 are more subjective in nature.
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