Ullah Irfan, Tahir Muhammad Junaid, Ali Sajjad, Waseem Rabia, Griffiths Mark D, Mamun Mohammed A, Lin Chung-Ying, Pakpour Amir H
Kabir Medical College, Gandhara University, Peshawar, Pakistan.
Ameer-Ud-Din Medical College, Lahore, Pakistan.
Int J Ment Health Addict. 2023;21(2):1240-1255. doi: 10.1007/s11469-021-00656-2. Epub 2021 Nov 29.
The Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S) assesses the fear of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and has been translated and validated into over 20 languages. The present study conducted confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and item response theory (IRT) analyses on the FCV-19S among a sample of 937 Pakistani adults (mean [SD] age of 25.83 [11.80] years; 537 [57.3%] females). The CFA and IRT confirmed the unidimensionality of the FCV-19S. The Likert-type scale used in the FCV-19S was supported by the proper threshold orderings. Additionally, no DIF contrast had an absolute value larger than 0.5 regarding the participants' characteristics of gender, age, living status, and education in the IRT findings. The FCV-19S was found to be valid and reliable with strong psychometric properties among the Pakistani adult population.
新型冠状病毒肺炎恐惧量表（FCV-19S）用于评估对2019年新型冠状病毒病（COVID-19）的恐惧，现已被翻译成20多种语言并经过验证。本研究对937名巴基斯坦成年人（平均[标准差]年龄为25.83[11.80]岁；537名[57.3%]为女性）样本中的FCV-19S进行了验证性因素分析（CFA）和项目反应理论（IRT）分析。CFA和IRT证实了FCV-19S的单维性。FCV-19S中使用的李克特式量表得到了适当的阈值排序的支持。此外，在IRT结果中，就参与者的性别、年龄、生活状况和教育程度等特征而言，没有差异项目功能（DIF）对比的绝对值大于0.5。研究发现，FCV-19S在巴基斯坦成年人群中具有良好的效度和信度，心理测量学特性较强。
