psychometric properties of coronavirus anxiety scale in iranian population

Background: one of the most common mental health-related issues related to the covid-19 pandemic is high levels of distress and anxiety due to the covid-19 pandemic. psychological well being and conservation of the general population are utterly significant components of facing covid‑19 pandemic. it seems that despite the availability of highly standardized tools to investigate covid-19-related anxiety, the coronavirus anxiety scale (cas) can be helpful in different populations due to its short design. objectives: the present study aimed to assess the psychometric properties of the persian (iranian) version of the coronavirus anxiety scale (p-cas). methods: in this web-based cross-sectional study, 305 individuals (184 females vs. 121 males) participated. all participants were evaluated by five questionnaires, including the p-cas, covid stress scales (css), the depression, anxiety and stress scale-21 (dass-21), whiteley index (wi), and difficulties in emotion regulation scale (ders). cronbach’s alpha, confirmatory factor analysis (cfa), and correlation coefficient were used for data analysis using spss 23 and amos-23 software. results: the results of cfa demonstrated that the factor structure of the p-cas was good, and the scale had an appropriate internal consistency (α = 0.80). a satisfactory convergent validity was shown due to positive correlations of the p-cas with the related scales. test-retest reliability of p-cas was also satisfactory (icc = 0.95). conclusions: according to our results, the p-cas is a valid and reliable instrument to evaluate the severity of dysfunctional anxiety due to covid-19 pandemic.