Title of article
A New Self-Reported Assessment Measure for COVID-19 Anxie-ty Scale (CDAS) in Iran: A Web-Based Study
Author/Authors
ALIPOUR, Ahmad Department of Psychology - Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran , GHADAMI, Abolfazl Department of Assessment and Measurement - Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran , FARSHAM, Aida Department of Psychology - School of Health Psychology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran , DORRI, Negin Department of Psychology - School of Health Psychology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Pages
9
From page
1316
To page
1324
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 popula-tion.
Keywords
Iran , Self-report , Anxiety , Coronavirus
Journal title
Iranian Journal of Public Health
Serial Year
2020
Record number
2519839
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