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

Ahmad Alipour; Abolfazl Ghadami; Aida Farsham; Negin Dorri

doi:10.18502/ijph.v49i7.3585

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

Iran J Public Health. 2020 Jul;49(7):1316-1323. doi: 10.18502/ijph.v49i7.3585.

Authors

Ahmad Alipour¹, Abolfazl Ghadami², Aida Farsham³, Negin Dorri³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.
² Department of Assessment and Measurement, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran.
³ Department of Psychology, School of Health Psychology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

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: Anxiety; Coronavirus; Iran; Self-report.