Psychometric Evaluation of a Fear of COVID-19 Scale in China: Cross-sectional Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

At the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, information about fear of COVID-19 was very limited in Chinese populations, and there was no standardized and validated scale to measure the fear associated with the pandemic.

Objective

This cross-sectional study aimed to adapt and validate a fear scale to determine the levels of fear of COVID-19 among the general population in mainland China and Hong Kong.

Methods

A web-based questionnaire platform was developed for data collection; the study instruments were an adapted version of the 8-item Breast Cancer Fear Scale ("Fear Scale") and the 4-item Patient Health Questionnaire. The internal construct validity, convergent validity, known group validity, and reliability of the adapted Fear Scale were assessed, and

SUBMITTER: Choi EPH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8893716 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature