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Fear of COVID-19 scale: Psychometric characteristics, reliability and validity in the Israeli population #MMPMID32425276
Tzur Bitan D; Grossman-Giron A; Bloch Y; Mayer Y; Shiffman N; Mendlovic S
Psychiatry Res 2020[Jul]; 289 (ä): 113100 PMID32425276show ga
Mental health clinicians worldwide have been expressing concerns regarding the broad psychological effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nonetheless, only a few studies have thus far evaluated the degree of fear of COVID-19, partially due to the lack of validated measures. In this study we evaluated the psychometric properties of the Hebrew version of the Fear of COVID-19 scale (FCV-19S), recently developed to assess different aspects of the fear of the pandemic, in a normative population of participants in Israel. Participants (n = 639) were asked to complete the FCV-19S scale, as well as to report anxiety, depression, and stress levels using validated scales. The results a unidimensional factor structure of the FCV-19S which explained 53.71% of the variance. When forcing a two-factor structure model, the analysis revealed two factors pertaining to emotional fear reactions and symptomatic expressions of fear. Gender, sociodemographic status, chronic illness, being in an at-risk group, and having a family member dying of COVID-19 were positively associated with fear of COVID-19. The measure was associated with anxiety, stress and depression. These results suggest that the FCV-19S has good psychometric properties, and can be utilized in studies assessing the effects of the pandemic on the population's mental health.
|Adult[MESH]
|Anxiety/diagnosis[MESH]
|Betacoronavirus[MESH]
|COVID-19[MESH]
|Coronavirus Infections/*psychology[MESH]
|Depression/diagnosis[MESH]
|Fear/*psychology[MESH]
|Female[MESH]
|Humans[MESH]
|Israel/epidemiology[MESH]
|Male[MESH]
|Mental Disorders/*diagnosis[MESH]
|Pandemics[MESH]
|Pneumonia, Viral/*psychology[MESH]
|Psychiatric Status Rating Scales/*standards[MESH]