RT Journal Article
T1 Adaptation and initial psychometric study of the anxiety and fear of COVID-19 scale in the United Kingdom population
A1 Morgado Toscano, Cristina
A1 Allande Cussó, Regina
A1 Fagundo Rivera, Javier
A1 Navarro Abal, Yolanda
A1 Climent Rodríguez, José Antonio
A1 Gómez Salgado, Juan
AB Objective: The aim of the study was the initial psychometric study to validate theanxiety and fear of COVID-19 (AMICO) assessment scale in the general population ofthe United Kingdom population.Materials and methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional, psychometric validation anddescriptive study was conducted, performing univariate and bivariate analyses, aswell as exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis.Results: The sample was 658 people living in the United Kingdom over 16 years. Ofthe total, 80.5% were female, with a mean age of 48.25 years (SD = 14.861). A meanscore for the AMICO scale of 4.85 (SD = 2.398) was obtained, with a range of scoresfrom 1 to 10. The study of percentiles and quartiles allowed for the identification ofthree proposed levels of anxiety.Conclusion: The AMICO_UK scale is reliable to measure the presence of anxiety andfear related to the COVID-19 disease in the United Kingdom population. The majorityof the United Kingdom population presented low levels of anxiety and fear at the timethe scale was administered
PB Frontiers Media
SN 1664-0640 (electrónico)
YR 2023
FD 2023-02
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10272/22233
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/22233
LA eng
NO Morgado-Toscano, C., Allande-Cussó, R., Fagundo-Rivera, J., Navarro-Abal, Y., Climent-Rodríguez, J. A., & Gómez-Salgado, J. (2023). Adaptation and initial psychometric study of the anxiety and fear of COVID-19 scale in the United Kingdom population. In Frontiers in Psychiatry (Vol. 14). Frontiers Media SA. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1071146
NO Funding for open access charge: University of Huelva / CBUA.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 13 jul 2026