Feng Lin-Sen, Dong Zheng-Jiao, Yan Ruo-Yu, Wu Xiao-Qian, Zhang Li, Ma Jun, Zeng Yong
The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University (The People's Hospital of Yuxi City), Yunnan 653100, China.
School of Public Health, Kunming Medical University, Yunnan 650500, China.
Psychiatry Res. 2020 Sep;291:113202. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113202. Epub 2020 Jun 8.
COVID-19 is now spreading worldwide, and poses some public mental health problems which requires close attention. This study aims to develop a scale of COVID-19 related psychological distress in healthy public (CORPD) to assess the severity of psychological distress in uninfected healthy populations. We compiled a 14-item scale which contains two dimensions- Anxiety & fear and Suspicion -using the classical measurement theory. 652 Chinese citizens consented and completed a survey through an online questionnaire APP. The reliability test showed that the scale had good internal consistency reliability and Split-Half reliability, and the validity test showed that it had good structure validity, content validity and criterion correlation validity. This scale can be used to assess the psychological distress of people in China and in other COVID-19-hit regions and countries. It also provides a reference for future studies on COVID-19 or other respiratory infectious diseases related public mental health.
新型冠状病毒肺炎（COVID-19）目前正在全球范围内传播，并引发了一些需要密切关注的公共心理健康问题。本研究旨在编制一份健康公众的新型冠状病毒肺炎相关心理困扰量表（CORPD），以评估未感染健康人群的心理困扰严重程度。我们运用经典测量理论编制了一个包含焦虑与恐惧、怀疑两个维度的14项量表。652名中国公民通过在线问卷应用程序同意并完成了一项调查。信度检验表明该量表具有良好的内部一致性信度和分半信度，效度检验表明它具有良好的结构效度、内容效度和效标关联效度。该量表可用于评估中国以及其他受COVID-19影响地区和国家人群的心理困扰。它也为未来关于COVID-19或其他呼吸道传染病相关公共心理健康的研究提供了参考。
