Aljemaiah Abdulaziz I, Osman Mugtaba, Alharbi Sarah, Alshehri Randa, Aldggag Esraa Mansoer, Aljoudi Alaa Talal, Abdulsomad Dina Smail, Abdulghani Mohammed, Alotaibi Fawaz
Armed Forces Center for Psychiatric Care, Taif, Saudi Arabia.
Armed Forces Center for Psychiatric Care, Taif, Saudi Arabia; and Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Egypt.
BJPsych Open. 2021 Jan 12;7(1):e33. doi: 10.1192/bjo.2020.166.
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented stress and fear throughout the world.
To evaluate the psychological effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Saudi public, and to examine the performance of the Arabic version of the Four-Dimensional Symptom Questionnaire (4DSQ) scale.
We conducted an online questionnaire-based cross-sectional survey of a sample of the Saudi public.
The study included 347 participants, who reported significantly higher levels of distress, depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms and somatisation compared with a normative sample. Females scored higher in terms of somatisation, depression and anxiety symptoms, and distress. Obtaining COVID-19 information from friends and relatives was associated with higher levels of somatisation, depression and anxiety symptoms, and distress. Cronbach's alpha was 0.93 for the distress scale, 0.88 for the depression scale, 0.88 for the anxiety scale and 0.86 for the somatisation scale.
Levels of psychological distress were high among the Saudi public during the COVID-19 pandemic. We found high reliability for the Arabic version of the 4DSQ scale. However, three items did not conform to the four-factor structure, namely, item 1: 'During the past week, did you suffer from dizziness or feeling light-headed?', item 20: 'During the past week, did you suffer from disturbed sleep?' and item 46: 'During the past week did you ever think I wish I was dead?'.
新冠疫情在全球范围内造成了前所未有的压力和恐惧。
评估新冠疫情对沙特公众的心理影响，并检验阿拉伯语版四维症状问卷（4DSQ）量表的性能。
我们对沙特公众样本进行了一项基于在线问卷的横断面调查。
该研究纳入了347名参与者，与正常样本相比，他们报告的痛苦、抑郁症状、焦虑症状和躯体化水平显著更高。女性在躯体化、抑郁和焦虑症状以及痛苦方面得分更高。从朋友和亲戚那里获取新冠信息与更高水平的躯体化、抑郁和焦虑症状以及痛苦相关。痛苦量表的克朗巴哈系数为0.93，抑郁量表为0.88，焦虑量表为0.88，躯体化量表为0.86。
在新冠疫情期间，沙特公众的心理痛苦水平较高。我们发现阿拉伯语版4DSQ量表具有较高的信度。然而，有三个项目不符合四因素结构，即项目1：“在过去一周里，你是否感到头晕或头晕目眩？”，项目20：“在过去一周里，你的睡眠是否受到干扰？”以及项目46：“在过去一周里，你是否曾想过我希望我死了？”
