A New Self-Reported Assessment Measure for COVID-19 Anxiety Scale (CDAS) in Iran: A Web-Based Study

Background: given the epidemic of corona disease and its associated anxiety, it is necessary to develop a tool to measure anxiety. this study was conducted to instruct corona disease anxiety scale (cdas) to measure the level of anxiety, during the prevalence of the covid-19 in iran. methods: the present study was considered as applied research in terms of purpose and descriptive-correlational research in terms of methodological. 318 individuals (aged from 18 to 60 years old) completed the corona disease anxiety scale (cdas) and the general health questionnaire (ghq) online. results: corona disease anxiety scale had a good internal consistency (α=0.91) and good convergent validity, correlating with the ghq-28 (r=0.49, p>0.01). exploratory analysis revealed psychological and physical factors. these 2 factor account for 51% of the total variance and 9 items were loaded on every factor. conclusion: this scale is reliable and valid scale for measuring corona anxiety in non-clinical iranian population.