The Peking Health Anxiety Scale for Infectious Diseases: psychometric properties and short-form development
Junkai Feng, Yixuan Wang, Yinyin Zang · 2026
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Feng, Wang, and Zang build a yardstick for a specific worry: fear of catching an infectious disease. General health anxiety scales miss the outbreak setting. So in 2025 the team adapts an existing inventory to focus on COVID-19. They test the new scale on 1,660 adults, mostly in the United States.
The scale settles into two factors, catastrophic thinking and infection worries, with strong consistency and stability over time. Scores relate to handwashing in a curved pattern that separates healthy vigilance from excess. A five-item short form keeps most of the accuracy, and cutoffs are given for both versions. The authors offer the tools for screening during outbreaks, while urging tests in wider populations.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Junkai Feng, Yixuan Wang, Yinyin Zang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |