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Resumo
EIDMAN, Leandro; ARBIZU, Julieta e MARTURET, Agustín. Psychometric Analysis of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale in Argentinean Population. Interacciones [online]. 2021, vol.7, pp.e192-. ISSN 2411-5940. http://dx.doi.org/10.24016/2021.v7.192.
Background:
The purpose of this research was to analyze the psychometric properties of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale to measure anxiety symptoms associated with COVID-19 in a sample of the Argentine population.
Method:
A non-randomized sample of 1098 subjects residing in different provinces of the Argentine Republic was used. The average age was 36.68 (SD = 14.34, Min = 18, Max = 83), 78.1% were women and 21.9% were men. A non-experimental, cross-sectional, instrumental study was designed. The epistemological basis used was classical psychometry.
Results
Psychometric analyses reported that the scale has a one-dimensional structure with adequate reliability and validity (Ω = .93). The items met expected values for their discrimination, which showed that the instrument can distinguish between people with presence or absence of anxiety symptoms associated with Sars-Cov-2. The cut-off point for symptomatic identification was ≥ 10. The prevalence of anxiety symptoms by coronavirus was 22.4%.
Conclusion:
It can be concluded that this scale has an adequate format for its use in the Argentinean population in the context of coronavirus pandemic and its basic psychometric analysis indicated a good general performance of its measures, which allows identifying the presence or absence of anxiety symptoms.
Palavras-chave : coronavirus; anxiety; Argentinean adaptation; psychometric properties; validity..