Psychometric Properties of Coronavirus Anxiety Scale in Iranian Population

Background: One of the most common mental health-related issues related to COVID-19 pandemic is high levels distress and anxiety due pandemic. Psychological well being conservation general population are utterly significant components facing COVID‑19 It seems that despite availability highly standardized tools investigate COVID-19-related anxiety, Coronavirus Anxiety Scale (CAS) can be helpful in different populations its short design. Objectives: The present study aimed assess psychometric properties Persian (Iranian) version (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 P-CAS, COVID Stress Scales (CSS), Depression, Scale-21 (DASS-21), Whiteley index (WI), Difficulties Emotion Regulation (DERS). Cronbach’s alpha, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), correlation coefficient used for data using SPSS 23 AMOS-23 software. Results: results CFA demonstrated structure P-CAS was good, scale had an appropriate internal consistency (α = 0.80). A satisfactory convergent validity shown positive correlations with scales. Test-retest reliability also (ICC 0.95). Conclusions: According our results, a valid reliable instrument evaluate severity dysfunctional