Department of Clinical and Biological Psychology, Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Ostenstraße 25, 85072 Eichstaett, Germany.
Department of Psychiatry, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, 88 Olympic-ro 43-gil, Songpa-gu, Seoul 05505, Korea.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Sep 5;18(17):9377. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18179377.
Healthcare workers (HCW) are among those most directly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Most research with this group has used ad hoc measures, which limits comparability across samples. The Stress and Anxiety to Viral Epidemics-9 scale (SAVE-9) is a nine-item scale first developed in Korea, and has since been translated into several languages. We report on data collected from 484 German HCW between November 2020 and March 2021, during the "second wave" of coronavirus infections. We conducted item analysis, confirmatory factor analysis on the previously found factor solutions of the SAVE-9, examined correlations with established measures of depression, generalized anxiety, and insomnia, and compared scores between different groups of HCW. The psychometric properties of the German SAVE-9 were satisfactory and comparable to previous findings from Korea and Russia. Correlations with mental health measures were positive, as expected. We found some significant differences between groups of HCW on the SAVE-9 which were consistent with the literature but did not appear on the other mental health measures. This suggests that the SAVE-9 taps into specifically work-related stress, which may make it a helpful instrument in this research area.
医护人员（HCW）是受 COVID-19 大流行直接影响最大的人群之一。大多数针对该群体的研究都使用了特定的措施，这限制了样本之间的可比性。应激和焦虑与病毒流行量表-9 项版（SAVE-9）是一个由 9 个项目组成的量表，最初在韩国开发，此后已被翻译成多种语言。我们报告了 2020 年 11 月至 2021 年 3 月期间在冠状病毒感染的“第二波”期间从 484 名德国 HCW 收集的数据，当时在冠状病毒感染的“第二波”期间。我们进行了项目分析，对之前发现的 SAVE-9 的因子解决方案进行了验证性因素分析，检验了与既定的抑郁、广泛性焦虑和失眠测量方法的相关性，并比较了不同 HCW 群体之间的得分。德国 SAVE-9 的心理测量特性令人满意，与韩国和俄罗斯的先前发现相当。与心理健康测量方法的相关性是阳性的，这是预期的。我们在 SAVE-9 上发现了一些 HCW 群体之间的显著差异，这些差异与文献一致，但在其他心理健康测量方法上没有出现。这表明 SAVE-9 专门针对与工作相关的压力，这可能使其成为该研究领域的有用工具。
