Development and Validation of a Scale to Measure Anxiety Specific to Pregnancy During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Antenatal COVID-19 Anxiety Scale

Conclusions: We conclude that the AnCAn Scale holds good psychometric properties, and it identifies and distinguishes 2 latent factors: (1) anxiety related to acquiring infection and (2) anxiety related to spreading infection and social role obligations, which are compositely related to anxiety specific to COVID-19 and pregnancy.PMID:34861747 | DOI:10.4088/PCC.21m03038

Source: Primary Care - December 3, 2021 Category: Primary Care Authors: Sai Krishna Tikka Sonia Parial Deyashini Lahiri Chandni Prakash Prabha S Chandra Source Type: research