COVID-19 related distress in the Swedish population: Validation of the Swedish version of the COVID Stress Scales (CSS).

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID Stress Scales (CSS) assess health- and contamination-related distress in the face of a medical outbreak like the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Though the CSS is translated into 21 languages, it has not been validated in a Swedish national sample.

Aim

Our general objective is to provide a translation, replication, and validation of the CSS and test its convergent- and discriminant validity in relation to anxiety, health anxiety, depression, and stress in the general Swedish population. We also present latent psychometric properties by modelling based on item response theory.

Methods

Participants consisted of 3044 Swedish adults (> 18 years) from a pre-stratified (gender, age, and education) sample from The Swedish Citizen Panel. Mental health status w

SUBMITTER: Carlander A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8843112 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature