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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION
Volume 20, Issue 2, Pages 907-920Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11469-020-00414-w
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Fear of COVID-19 scale; Cutoff; Anxiety; Health anxiety; Posttraumatic symptomatology
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This study aimed to explore the validity of the Greek version of the FCV-19S scale and determine appropriate cutoff scores. The results showed that a cutoff point score of 16.5 or higher had significant predictive power for anxiety, health anxiety, and posttraumatic stress symptoms.
The COVID-19 pandemic elicited fear. The Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S) is a newly developed self-reported measure, originally developed in Persian to assess COVID-19-related fear. To date, the scale has been translated and validated in 19 other languages, among which Greek. This study, conducted through an online survey, aimed to further explore the validity of the Greek FCV-19S version, as well as to identify appropriate cutoff scores. A total of 538 respondents completed the sociodemographic data sheet, the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item scale, the Short Health Anxiety Inventory, and the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder-8 inventory. According to the results, a cutoff point score of 16.5 or higher revealed a significant predictive power for anxiety, health anxiety, and posttraumatic stress symptoms. Altogether, although the cutoff scores of the Greek FCV-19S version were explored to further evaluate the scale's validity, they may facilitate discrimination of adults with extreme COVID-19-related fear from those with normal fear reactions.
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