COVID-19 Fear Among Pakistanis: Psychometric Evaluation of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale Using Item Response Theory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis

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 o...

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Autores principales: Ullah, Irfan, Tahir, Muhammad Junaid, Ali, Sajjad, Waseem, Rabia, Griffiths, Mark D., Mamun, Mohammed A., Lin, Chung-Ying, Pakpour, Amir H.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8628831/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34867122
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11469-021-00656-2
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author Ullah, Irfan
Tahir, Muhammad Junaid
Ali, Sajjad
Waseem, Rabia
Griffiths, Mark D.
Mamun, Mohammed A.
Lin, Chung-Ying
Pakpour, Amir H.
author_facet Ullah, Irfan
Tahir, Muhammad Junaid
Ali, Sajjad
Waseem, Rabia
Griffiths, Mark D.
Mamun, Mohammed A.
Lin, Chung-Ying
Pakpour, Amir H.
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-86288312021-11-30 COVID-19 Fear Among Pakistanis: Psychometric Evaluation of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale Using Item Response Theory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis Ullah, Irfan Tahir, Muhammad Junaid Ali, Sajjad Waseem, Rabia Griffiths, Mark D. Mamun, Mohammed A. Lin, Chung-Ying Pakpour, Amir H. Int J Ment Health Addict Original Article 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. Springer US 2021-11-29 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC8628831/ /pubmed/34867122 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11469-021-00656-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
spellingShingle Original Article
Ullah, Irfan
Tahir, Muhammad Junaid
Ali, Sajjad
Waseem, Rabia
Griffiths, Mark D.
Mamun, Mohammed A.
Lin, Chung-Ying
Pakpour, Amir H.
COVID-19 Fear Among Pakistanis: Psychometric Evaluation of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale Using Item Response Theory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis
title COVID-19 Fear Among Pakistanis: Psychometric Evaluation of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale Using Item Response Theory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis
title_full COVID-19 Fear Among Pakistanis: Psychometric Evaluation of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale Using Item Response Theory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis
title_fullStr COVID-19 Fear Among Pakistanis: Psychometric Evaluation of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale Using Item Response Theory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis
title_full_unstemmed COVID-19 Fear Among Pakistanis: Psychometric Evaluation of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale Using Item Response Theory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis
title_short COVID-19 Fear Among Pakistanis: Psychometric Evaluation of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale Using Item Response Theory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis
title_sort covid-19 fear among pakistanis: psychometric evaluation of the fear of covid-19 scale using item response theory and confirmatory factor analysis
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8628831/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34867122
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11469-021-00656-2
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