The validity and reliability of the Stress and Anxiety to Viral Epidemics‐9 items Scale in Turkish health care professionals

Abstract

There is a need for a valid and reliable measurement tool that will detect the psychological symptoms of health care workers in the epidemic and pandemic periods that have been effective worldwide in recent years. This study has aimed to investigate the validity and reliability of the Stress and Anxiety to Viral Epidemics‐9 items Scale (SAVE‐9) in Turkish health care professionals. The study was carried out with 150 health care professionals. All participants were asked to complete the SAVE‐9, Patient Health Questionnaire‐9 (PHQ‐9), Generalized Anxiety Disorder‐7 (GAD‐7), Brief Resilience Scale (BRS). The Cronbach's α coefficient was calculated. Also, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were used to evaluate the factor structure. The SAVE‐9 scores positively correlated with the PHQ‐9, GAD‐7, and negatively correlated with the BRS. The exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses supported two‐factor structure similar to the original scale. The first factor consists of five items (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8), and the second factor consists of three items (6, 7, 9). The Cronbach's α coefficient was found as 0.77. The Turkish version of SAVE‐9 is a valid and reliable tool for Turkish health care professionals.

Validity and Reliability of the Stress and Anxiety to Viral Epidemics-6 (SAVE-6) Scale to Measure Viral Anxiety of Healthcare Workers in Spain During the COVID-19 Pandemic

“…For that, Chung et al (11) developed the Stress and Anxiety to Viral Epidemics-9 items (SAVE-9) scale to measure healthcare workers' work-related stress and anxiety responses during the pandemic. It is a 9item self-rating scale and validated in Korean (11), Russian (12), Italian (13), Japanese (14), Turkish (15), and German (16). The SAVE-6 scale, derived from the SAVE-9 scale, used to assess the anxiety response of the general population, was validated in Korean (17), Lebanese (18), and American samples (19).…”

The Psychometric Properties of the Stress and Anxiety to Viral Epidemics-6 Items: A Test in the U.S. General Population

“…We originally developed Stress and Anxiety to Viral Epidemics-9 items (SAVE-9) scale, a nine-item scale to assess stress and anxiety of healthcare workers in response to the viral epidemic (11). It has the advantage of being a compact psychological scale that can be used in many various pandemic situations, and it was validated in various languages including Russian (12), Italian (13), Japanese (14), Turkish (15), and German (16). In a previous study, the SAVE-9 scale was divided into two factors; factor I-anxiety about viral epidemics (namely, SAVE-6), and factor II-work-related stress associated with viral epidemics.…”

Validation of the Russian version of Stress and Anxiety to Viral Epidemics – 9 items (SAVE-9) among healthcare workers during COVID-19 pandemic

“…Epidemics -9 items, SAVE-9), разработанная в Южной Корее [19], является первым специальным инструментом для оценки стресса и тревоги непосредственно у медицинских работников во время вирусной эпидемии. На сегодняшний день SAVE-9 переведена на многие языки мира [20] и была валидирована среди медицинских работников в Японии [21], Германии [22], Турции [23] и Италии [24], а ее сокращенная версия (SAVE-6) -в Испании [25] и среди общей популяции в США [26] и Ливане [27]. Использование данной шкалы в качестве метода скрининга в нашей стране может значительно повысить эффективность выявления групп медицинских работников, которые нуждаются в психологической и психиатрической помощи.…”

“…Внутренняя согласованность SAVE-9 была высокой (альфа Кронбаха -0,787), что сопоставимо с результатами разработчиков шкалы (альфа Кронбаха -0,748) [19], а также с данными авторов из других стран [22,23].…”