COVID-19 related mental health issues: a narrative review of psychometric properties of scales and methodological concerns in scale development.
Journal: Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
Volume: 29
Issue: 3
Year of Publication: 2021
Affiliated Institutions:
Department of Psychiatry, BKL Walawalkar Rural Medical College, Ratnagiri, MH, India.
Department of Neuroscience, University Hospital Center "Mother Theresa," Tirana, Albania.
Department of Psychiatry, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, DL, India.
Department of Psychiatry, Central Institute of Psychiatry, Kanke, Ranchi, JH, India.
Department of Psychiatry, Vilasrao Deshmukh Government Institute of Medical Sciences, Latur, Maharashtra, India.
Department of Psychiatry, Bezmialem Vakif University Medical Faculty, Istanbul, Turkey.
Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Kaduna, Kaduna State, Nigeria.
Department of Clinical Neurosciences/DIMSC, School of Medicine, Section of Psychiatry, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy.
Ministry of Health and Education, Tehran, Iran; Clinical research development unit, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran.
Department of Neuropsychiatry, University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Port Harcourt, Rivers state, Nigeria.
CERSAME School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universidad del Rosario -Clínica Nuestra Señora de la Paz, Bogota, Colombia.
Razi Hospital, Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, Tunis El Manar University, Tunis, Tunisia.
Unit for Social and Community Psychiatry, WHO Collaborating Centre for Mental Health Services Development, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
Addictions Service, Department of Territorial Services, Teramo, Italy.
Fidmag Research Foundation, Hermanas Hospitalarias, Barcelona, Spain.
Hospital and University Clinical Service of Kosovo, Community Based Mental Health Center and House for Integration, Prizren, Kosovo.
Mental Health Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Helwan Mental Health Hospital, Helwan, Cairo, Egypt.
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Department of Social and Community Health, School of Population Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Abstract summary
The global crisis of COVID-19 and its consequential strict public health measures placed around the world have impacted mental health. New scales and tools have been developed to measure these mental health effects. This narrative review assesses the psychometric properties of these scales and tools and methodological aspects of their development.PubMed, PubMed Central, and Google Scholar were searched for articles published from 15 May 2020 to 15 August 2020. This search used three groups of terms ("tool" OR "scale" AND "mental" OR "psychological"; AND "COVID-19" OR "coronavirus"). The identified scales were further evaluated for their psychometric properties and methodological aspects of their development.Though the studies developing these scales ( = 12) have demonstrated their robust psychometric properties, some methodological concerns are noteworthy. Most of the scales were validated using internet-based surveys, and detailed descriptions of the mode of administration, sampling process, response rates, and augmentation strategies were missing.The heterogeneous and inadequate reporting of methods adopted to evaluate the psychometric properties of the identified scales can limit their utility in clinical and research settings. We suggest developing guidelines and checklists to improve the design and testing, and result in reporting of online-administered scales to assess the mental health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Authors & Co-authors:
Ransing Ramdas R
Dashi Elona E
Rehman Sajjadur S
Mehta Varun V
Chepure Ashish A
Kilic Ozge O
Hayatudeen Nafisatu N
Orsolini Laura L
Vahdani Bita B
Adiukwu Frances F
Gonzalez-Diaz Jairo M JM
Larnaout Amine A
Pinto da Costa Mariana M
Grandinetti Paolo P
Soler-Vidal Joan J
Bytyçi Drita Gashi DG
Shalbafan Mohammadreza M
Nofal Marwa M
Pereira-Sanchez Victor V
Ramalho Rodrigo R
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