Measures developed to assess the psychological impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic:
a systematic literature review
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.22199/issn.0718-7475-2020-0006Keywords:
measures, psychometrics, COVID-19 , pandemicAbstract
INTRODUCTION: The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic put the mental health of the world population on alert. In this context, psychometric tools are of great value for a better understanding of psychological suffering in this period. OBJECTIVE: The present study aimed to conduct a review on the psychometric instruments developed and adapted to measure psychological constructs in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. METHOD: A systematic literature review was carried out using Scopus, Web of Science, Science Direct, BVS and PsycInfo databases. Full texts in English, Portuguese or Spanish have been included. RESULTS: The search resulted in 108 articles, 18 of which were selected for analysis. The findings allowed us to identify the instruments available for the psychological assessment of people during the COVID-19 pandemic, enabling a discussion focused on the most recent articles. CONCLUSIONS: The psychometric instruments that have been developed aim to evaluate the psychological impacts variables such as: fear, obsessive behavior, anxiety, stress, beliefs and phobias. The listed instruments serve to identify signs of mental illness, and are therefore tools that can be used to prevent and aid in the diagnosis of mental discomfort.
References
Andrade, C. C., & Holanda, A. F. (2010). Apontamentos sobre pesquisa qualitativa e pesquisa empírico-fenomenológica. Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas), 27(2), 259-268. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0103-166X2010000200013
Arpaci, I., Karataş, K., & Baloğlu, M. (2020). The Development and initial tests for the psychometric properties of the COVID-19 Phobia Scale (C19P-S) Personality and individual diferences, 164, Article110108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110108
Asmundson, G. J., Paluszek, M. M., Landry, C. A., Rachor, G. S., McKay, D., & Taylor, S. (2020). Do pre-existing anxiety-related and mood disorders differentially impact COVID-19 stress responses and coping?. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 74, Article 102271. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2020.102271
Balaratnasingam, S., & Janca, A. (2006). Mass hysteria revisited. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 19(2), 171-174. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.yco.0000214343.59872.7a
Bao, Y., Sun, Y., Meng, S., Shi, J., & Lu, L. (2020). 2019-nCoV epidemic: address mental health care to empower society. The Lancet, 395(10224), e37-e38. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30309-3
Barua, Z., Barua, S., Aktar, S., Kabir, N., & Li, M. (2020). Effects of misinformation on COVID-19 individual responses and recommendations for resilience of disastrous consequences of misinformation. Progress in Disaster Science, 8, Article 100119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pdisas.2020.100119
Bitan, D. T., Grossman-Giron, A., Bloch, Y., Mayer, Y., Shiffman, N., & Mendlovic, S. (2020). Fear of COVID-19 scale: Psychometric characteristics, reliability and validity in the Israeli population. Psychiatry Research, 289, Article113100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113100
Brooks, S. K., Webster, R. K., Smith, L. E., Woodland, L., Wessely, S., Greenberg, N., & Rubin, G. J. (2020). The psychological impact of quarantine and how to reduce it: rapid review of the evidence. The Lancet, 395. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30460-8
Chandu, V. C., Pachava, S., Vadapalli, V., & Marella, Y. (2020). Development and Initial Validation of the COVID-19 Anxiety Scale. Indian Journal of Public Health, 64(6), 201-204. https://doi.org/10.4103/ijph.IJPH_492_20
Costantini, A., & Mazzotti, E. (2020). Italian validation of CoViD-19 Peritraumatic Distress Index and preliminary data in a sample of general population. Rivista di Psichiatria, 55(3), 145-151. https://doi.org/10.1708/3382.33570
Duan, L., & Zhu, G. (2020). Psychological interventions of people affected by the COVID-19 epidemic. The Lancet Psychiatry, 7(4), 300-302. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(20)30073-0
Ferguson, N., Laydon, D., Nedjati Gilani, G., Imai, N., Ainslie, K., Baguelin, M., Bhatia, S., Boonyasiri, A., Cucunuba Perez, Z., Cuomo-Dannenburg, G., Dighe, A., Dorigatti, I., Fu, H., Gaythorpe, K., Green, W., Hamlet, A., Hinsley, W., Okell, L., Van Elsland, S…, & Dighe, A. (2020). Report 9: Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID19 mortality and healthcare demand, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.25561/77482
Fernández, R. S., Crivelli, L., Guimet, N. M., Allegri, R. F., & Pedreira, M. E. (2020). Psychological Distress associated with COVID-19 quarantine: Latent Profile Analysis, Outcome Prediction and Mediation Analysis. Journal of Affective Disorders, 277, 75-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.07.133
Lee, S.A., (2020). How much “Thinking” about COVID-19 is clinically dysfunctional?
Brain, behavior, and Immunity, 87,97-98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2020.04.067
Li, W., Yang, Y., Liu, Z. H., Zhao, Y. J., Zhang, Q., Zhang, L., Cheung, T., & Xiang, Y. T. (2020). Progression of mental health services during the COVID-19 outbreak in China. International journal of biological sciences, 16(10), 1732-1738. https://doi.org/10.7150/ijbs.45120
Mamani, P. G. R., Morales-García, W. C., White, M., & Marquez-Ruiz, M. S. (2020). Propiedades de una escala de preocupación por el COVID-19: Análisis exploratorio en una muestra peruana. Medicina Clínica, 155(12), 535-537. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medcli.2020.06.022
Martínez-Lorca, M., Martínez-Lorca, A., Criado-Álvarez, J. J., & Armesilla, M. D. C. (2020). The Fear of COVID-19 Scale: Validation in Spanish university students. Psychiatry Research, 2093, Article 113350. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113350
Mertens, G., Gerritsen, L., Duijndam, S., Salemink, E., & Engelhard, I. M. (2020). Fear of the coronavirus (COVID-19): Predictors in an online study conducted in March 2020. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 74, Article102258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2020.102258
Meyer, P. (1988). Defining and measuring credibility of newspapers: Developing an index. Journalism quarterly, 65(3), 567-574. https://doi.org/10.1177/107769908806500301
Neria, Y., & Sullivan, G. M. (2011). Understanding the mental health effects of indirect exposure to mass trauma through the media. JAMA, 306(12), 1374-1375. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2011.1358
Nikčević, A. V., & Spada, M. M. (2020). The COVID-19 anxiety syndrome scale: Development and psychometrics. Psychiatry Research, 293, Article 113322. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113322
Ornell, F., Schuch, J. B., Sordi, A. O., & Kessler, F. H. P. (2020). “Pandemic fear” and COVID-19: mental health burden and strategies. Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry, 42(3), 232-235. https://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1516-4446-2020-0008
Pakenham, K. I., Landi, G., Boccolini, G., Furlani, A., Grandi, S., & Tossani, E. (2020). The moderating roles of psychological flexibility and inflexibility on the mental health impacts of COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown in Italy. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 17, 109-118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2020.07.003
Pasquali L. (2016). TEP – Técnicas de Exame Psicológico: Os fundamentos. (2ª ed). São Paulo, SP: Vetor.
Pérez-Fuentes, M. D. C., Molero-Jurado, M. D. M., Oropesa-Ruiz, N. F., Martos-Martínez, Á., Simón-Márquez, M. D. M., , & Gázquez-Linares, J. J. (2020). Questionnaire on Perception of Threat from COVID-19. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 9(4), Article 1196. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9041196
Ransing, R., Ramalho, R., Orsolini, L., Adiukwu, F., Gonzalez-Diaz, J. M., Larnaout, A., Pinto, M., Grandinetti, P., Gashi, D., Shalbafan, M., Patil, I., Nofal, M., Pereira-Sánchez, V., & Kilic, O. (2020). Can COVID-19 related mental health issues be measured?: Assessment options for mental health professionals. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 88, 32-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2020.05.049
Rubin, G. J., & Wessely, S. (2020). The psychological effects of quarantining a city. BMJ, 368. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m313
Schmidt, B., Crepaldi, M. A., Bolze, S. D. A., Neiva-Silva, L., & Demenech, L. M.. (2020). Saúde mental e intervenções psicológicas diante da pandemia do novo coronavírus (COVID-19). Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas), 37, e200063 https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-0275202037e200063
Shigemura, J., Ursano, R. J., Morganstein, J. C., Kurosawa, M., & Benedek, D. M. (2020). Public responses to the novel 2019 coronavirus (2019‐nCoV) in Japan: Mental health consequences and target populations. Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences, 74(4), 281-282. https://doi.org/10.1111/pcn.12988
Soraci, P., Ferrari, A., Abbiati, F. A., Del Fante, E., De Pace, R., Urso, A., & Griffiths, M. D. (2020). Validation and psychometric evaluation of the Italian version of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-020-00277-1
Taylor, S., Landry, C., Paluszek, M., Fergus, TA, McKay, D., & Asmundson, GJ (2020). Development and initial validation of the COVID Stress Scales Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 72, Article 102232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2020.102232
Tsipropoulou, V., Nikopoulou, V. A., Holeva, V., Nasika, Z., Diakogiannis, I., Sakka, S., Kostikidou, S., Varvara, C. Spyridopoulou, E., & Parlapani, E. (2020). Psychometric Properties of the Greek Version of FCV-19S. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-020-00319-8
Tull, M. T., Edmonds, K. A., Scamaldo, K., Richmond, J. R., Rose, J. P., & Gratz, K. L. (2020). Psychological Outcomes Associated with Stay-at-Home Orders and the Perceived Impact of COVID-19 on Daily Life. Psychiatry research, 289, Article 113098. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113098
Vally, Z. (2020). Public perceptions, anxiety, and the perceived efficacy of health-protective behaviours to mitigate the spread of the SARS-Cov-2/COVID-19 pandemic. Public Health, 187, 67-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2020.08.002
Velavan, T, P., & Mayer, C. G. (2020). The COVID-19 epidemic. Tropical Medicine & International Health, 25(3), 278-280. https://doi.org/10.1111/tmi.13383
Wang, C., Pan, R., Wan, X., Tan, Y., Xu, L., Ho, C., & Ho, R. C. (2020). Immediate psychological responses and associated factors during the initial stage of the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic among the general population in China. International journal of environmental research and public health, 17(5), Article 1729. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17051729
Xiang, Y. T., Yang, Y., Li, W., Zhang, L., Zhang, Q., Cheung, T., & Ng, C. H. (2020). Timely mental health care for the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak is urgently needed. The Lancet Psychiatry, 7(3), 228-229. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(20)30046-8
Xiao, C. (2020). A novel approach of consultation on 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19)-related psychological and mental problems: structured letter therapy. Psychiatry investigation, 17(2), 175-176. https://doi.org/10.30773/pi.2020.0047
Xiao, H., Zhang, Y., Kong, D., Li, S., & Yang, N. (2020). The effects of social support on sleep quality of medical staff treating patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in January and February 2020 in China. Medical science monitor: international medical journal of experimental and clinical research, 26, Article e923549-1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7075079/#
Zandifar, A., & Badrfam, R. (2020). Iranian mental health during the COVID-19 epidemic. Asian journal of psychiatry, 51, Article 101990. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2020.101990
Zsido, A. N., Csokasi, K., Vincze, O., & Coelho, C. M. (2020). The emergency reaction questionnaire–First steps towards a new method. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 49, Article 101684. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101684
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
Copyright (c) 2020 Lorena Mota Reis, Camila Jussara Pereira, Sandra Elisa de Assis Freire, Émerson Diógenes de Medeiros
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Los autores continúan como propietarios de sus trabajos, y pueden volver a publicar sus artículos en otro medio sin tener que solicitar autorización, siempre y cuando indiquen que el trabajo fue publicado originariamente en Revista Salud & Sociedad (ISSNe:0718-7475).
_(1).png)
