Clinically significant fear and anxiety of COVID-19: A psychometric examination of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale.
Adaptation, Psychological
Adolescent
Adult
Affect
Anxiety
/ diagnosis
Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections
/ prevention & control
Factor Analysis, Statistical
Fear
/ psychology
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Pandemics
/ prevention & control
Pneumonia, Viral
/ prevention & control
Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
/ standards
Psychometrics
Quarantine
/ psychology
Reproducibility of Results
SARS-CoV-2
Surveys and Questionnaires
United States
Young Adult
Anxiety
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Mental health screener
Journal
Psychiatry research
ISSN: 1872-7123
Titre abrégé: Psychiatry Res
Pays: Ireland
ID NLM: 7911385
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
08 2020
08 2020
Historique:
received:
31
03
2020
revised:
17
05
2020
accepted:
17
05
2020
pubmed:
28
5
2020
medline:
9
9
2020
entrez:
28
5
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The present study examined the psychometric properties of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale (CAS) using an online survey of 398 adult Amazon MTurk workers in the U.S. Confirmatory factor analyses demonstrated that the CAS measures a reliable (α = 0.92), unidimensional construct with a structure that was shown to be invariant across gender, race, and age. Construct validity was demonstrated with correlations between CAS scores and demographics, coronavirus diagnosis, history of anxiety, coronavirus fear, functional impairment, alcohol/drug coping, religious coping, hopelessness, suicidal ideation, as well as social attitudes (e.g., satisfaction with President Trump). The CAS also demonstrated solid discrimination ability for functional impairment (AUC =0.88), while the original cut score of ≥9 (76% sensitivity and 90% specificity) showed the strongest diagnostic effectiveness among scores. Overall, these findings are largely consistent with the results of the first CAS investigation and support the validity of this mental health screener for COVID-19 related research and practice.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32460185
pii: S0165-1781(20)30740-X
doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113112
pmc: PMC7237368
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Validation Study
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
113112Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
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