Open AccessDevelopment and Initial Validation of the COVID-19 Anxiety Scale
Author(s) -
Viswa Chaitanya Chandu,
Srinivas Pachava,
Viswanath Vadapalli,
Yamuna Marella
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
indian journal of public health/indian journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.381
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 2229-7693
pISSN - 0019-557X
DOI - 10.4103/ijph.ijph_492_20
Subject(s) - cronbach's alpha , anxiety , exploratory factor analysis , clinical psychology , scale (ratio) , psychology , construct validity , population , psychometrics , pearson product moment correlation coefficient , medicine , psychiatry , statistics , environmental health , cartography , mathematics , geography
Safeguarding the psychological well-being of the public is also an integral component of fighting COVID-19. However, there is limited availability of psychometric measures to document COVID-19-related anxiety among the general public.