The German Translation of the Stress and Anxiety to Viral Epidemics-9 (SAVE-9) Scale: Results from Healthcare Workers during the Second Wave of COVID-19

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Johanna Unterhitzenberger¹  Hannah Comtesse¹  Antonia Barke¹  Julia König¹  Verena Ertl¹  Bettina K. Doering¹  Seockhoon Chung² 

[1] Department of Clinical and Biological Psychology, Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Ostenstraße 25, 85072 Eichstaett, Germany;Department of Psychiatry, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, 88 Olympic-ro 43-gil, Songpa-gu, Seoul 05505, Korea;

关键词: COVID-19;    SAVE-9;    healthcare workers;    work stress;    anxiety;    Germany;   

DOI  :  10.3390/ijerph18179377

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Healthcare workers (HCW) are among those most directly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Most research with this group has used ad hoc measures, which limits comparability across samples. The Stress and Anxiety to Viral Epidemics-9 scale (SAVE-9) is a nine-item scale first developed in Korea, and has since been translated into several languages. We report on data collected from 484 German HCW between November 2020 and March 2021, during the “second wave” of coronavirus infections. We conducted item analysis, confirmatory factor analysis on the previously found factor solutions of the SAVE-9, examined correlations with established measures of depression, generalized anxiety, and insomnia, and compared scores between different groups of HCW. The psychometric properties of the German SAVE-9 were satisfactory and comparable to previous findings from Korea and Russia. Correlations with mental health measures were positive, as expected. We found some significant differences between groups of HCW on the SAVE-9 which were consistent with the literature but did not appear on the other mental health measures. This suggests that the SAVE-9 taps into specifically work-related stress, which may make it a helpful instrument in this research area.

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