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Psychometric Properties of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale Among Saudi University Male Students
- Source :
- Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment. 16:1427-1432
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2020.
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Abstract
- Background Various screening tools have been designed and developed to identify individuals with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). The current study aimed to assess the psychometric validation of the GAD-7 in Saudi university male students. Methods Healthy university male students (n= 192) participated in this cross-sectional study. All the participants were informed about the study details. Participants were asked to complete the GAD-7, the Sleep Hygiene Index (SHI), Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), and demographic details. Results In general, the range of the GAD total score was 0-21. There was no issue of the ceiling or floor effects as only 12.5% of participants reported the minimum score of 0, and none of the participants reported the maximum score of 21. The internal consistency score of the GAD-7 was found to be good (Cronbach's alpha = 0.83). The internal homogeneity between item scores was 0.22-0.57 as indicated by the "Spearman correlation coefficient (r)". The total scores and individual item scores of the GAD-7 were statistically associated with the PSS total score (correlation coefficient r = 0.21-0.37), and scores of the 8th and 13th item of the SHI (correlation coefficient r = 0.17-0.26, and 0.21-0.40, respectively). The exploratory factor and confirmatory factor loadings of the GAD-7 items were ranged from 0.60 to 0.81 and 0.51 to 0.80, respectively. Conclusion This study supported the use of the GAD-7 to assess the anxiety level among Saudi university students.
- Subjects :
- Generalized anxiety disorder
Sleep hygiene
Correlation coefficient
business.industry
Perceived Stress Scale
medicine.disease
Spearman's rank correlation coefficient
030227 psychiatry
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Cronbach's alpha
medicine
Anxiety
medicine.symptom
business
Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 11782021
- Volume :
- 16
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........789f0ef22b5ef7323af78566de07748d