Coronavirus Anxiety Scale.
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- What it measures
- Dysfunctional, physiologically-based anxiety symptoms triggered by thoughts/information about COVID-19.
- Length and format
- 5 items. 5-point frequency rating (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Translated into many languages during the pandemic incl. ES, AR, TR, FR; ~20+ langs, approx
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Lee, S. A. (2020). Coronavirus Anxiety Scale: A brief mental health screener for COVID-19 related anxiety. Death Studies, 44(7), 393-401. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2020.1748481
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