A New Self-Reported Assessment Measure for COVID-19 Anxiety Scale (CDAS) in Iran: A Web-Based Study

Author(s):

Ahmad ALIPOUR , Abolfazl GHADAMI , Aida Farsham* , Negin DORRI

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Article Type:
Research/Original Article (دارای رتبه معتبر)
Abstract:
Background

Given the epidemic of Corona disease and its associated anxiety, it is necessary to develop a tool to measure anxiety. This study was conducted to instruct Corona Disease Anxiety Scale (CDAS) to measure the level of anxiety, during the prevalence of the COVID-19 in Iran.

Methods

The present study was considered as applied research in terms of purpose and descriptive-correlational research in terms of methodological. 318 individuals (aged from 18 to 60 years old) completed the Corona Disease Anxiety Scale (CDAS) and the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) online

Results

Corona Disease Anxiety Scale had a good internal consistency (α=0.91) and good convergent validity, correlating with the GHQ-28 (r=0.49, P>0.01). Exploratory analysis revealed psychological and physical factors. These 2 factor account for 51% of the total variance and 9 items were loaded on every factor.

Conclusion

This scale is reliable and valid scale for measuring Corona anxiety in non-clinical Iranian population.

Keywords:

Coronavirus , Anxiety , Self-report , Iran

Language:
English
Published:
Iranian Journal of Public Health, Volume:49 Issue: 7, Jul 2020
Pages:
1316 to 1323
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