J 2021

The Associations of COVID-19 Induced Anxiety, Related Knowledge and Protective Behavior

RIAD, Abanoub, Yi HUANG, Liping ZHENG a Steriani ELAVSKY

Základní údaje

Originální název

The Associations of COVID-19 Induced Anxiety, Related Knowledge and Protective Behavior

Autoři

RIAD, Abanoub (818 Egypt, garant, domácí), Yi HUANG (156 Čína, domácí), Liping ZHENG a Steriani ELAVSKY (203 Česká republika, domácí)

Vydání

Health Psychology Research, Pavia, PAGEPRESS PUBL, 2021, 2420-8124

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

50101 Psychology

Stát vydavatele

Itálie

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14110/21:00121808

Organizační jednotka

Lékařská fakulta

UT WoS

000729314600012

Klíčová slova anglicky

covid 19; anxiety; risky behaviors

Štítky

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 10. 7. 2023 21:51, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová

Anotace

V originále

On the last day of 2019, 44 pneumonia cases with unknown etiology were reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) Country Office of China. This was the first cluster of what would be defined later as coronavirus disease (COVID-19). A self-administered questionnaire with multiple-choice items was created in Microsoft Forms (Microsoft Corp. Redmond, WA. 2020). A 5-point Likert scale with ten items, where “1” refers to “Totally disagree” and “5” refers to “Totally agree,” was developed to evaluate the anxiety induced by the COVID-19 outbreak highlighting the suggested sources of stress and anxious emotions, e.g., “When I or any family member go outside home during this COVID-19 outbreak I feel anxious”. A 5-point Likert scale with 14 items, where “1” refers to “Not at all like me” and “5” refers to “Just like me,” was developed to evaluate people’s protective behaviors against coronavirus infection from 3 dimensions: Routine Protective Behaviors (RPB), Post-exposure Protective Behaviors (PPB), and Post-exposure Risky Behaviors (PRB). Items in RPB are aimed to measure individuals’ protective behaviors in daily life when facing the epidemic. A multiple-choice scale of 12 items was developed to assess public awareness of COVID-19 as an emerging infectious disease. The primary objective of this work was to develop psychometrically sound scales to assess COVID-19 induced anxiety (CIAS), protective behaviors towards COVID-19 (PBCS), and COVID-19 related knowledge. The results indicated that COVID-19 induced the 6-item version of the CIAS can adequately measure anxiety level. Infectious disease outbreaks represent specific health-related crises that may impact people’s emotions in different patterns according to their emerging nature. Therefore, the CIAS was designed to cover the potential anxiety sources for the general population during the COVID-19 outbreak.