• Youjin Hong, Soyoung Yoo, Hussein Walid Mreydem, Bayan Tarek Abou Ali, Nada Omar Saleh, Sajida Fawaz Hammoudi, Joohee Lee, Sooyeon Suh, and Seockhoon Chung.
• Department of Psychiatry, GangNeung Asan Hospital, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Gangneung, Korea.
• J. Korean Med. Sci. 2021 Jun 28; 36 (25): e168e168.

AbstractThis study explored the psychometric properties of the Arabic version of the Stress and Anxiety to Viral Epidemics-6 items (SAVE-6) scale for assessing people's anxiety in response to the viral epidemic in Lebanon. The 406 participants responded voluntarily to the online survey that included the SAVE-6, Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7), and Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) tools. The single-structure SAVE-6 model showed good internal consistency (Cronbach's α = 0.773). The SAVE-6 scale also showed good convergent validity with the GAD-7 (Spearman's ρ = 0.42, P < 0.001) and PHQ-9 (ρ = 0.38, P < 0.001). Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis revealed an Arabic SAVE-6 cut-off score of 12 points (area under the curve [AUC] = 0.753; sensitivity = 62.74%; specificity = 78.26%) for an at least mild degree of anxiety (GAD-7 score ≥ 5). The Arabic version of the SAVE-6 was a reliable, valid, and solely usable scale for measuring the anxiety response of the general population to the viral epidemic.© 2021 The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences.

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