TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Validation of the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale and State Trait Anxiety Inventory A and B in Arabic among the Lebanese population
JO  - Clinical epidemiology and global health
A1  - Hallit, Souheil
A1  - Haddad, Chadia
A1  - Hallit, Rabih
A1  - Akel, Marwan
A1  - Obeid, Sahar
A1  - Haddad, Georges
A1  - Soufia, Michel
A1  - Khansa, Wael
A1  - Khoury, Rony
A1  - Kheir, Nelly
A1  - Elias Hallit, Christiane Abi
A1  - Salameh, Pascale
SP  - 1104
EP  - 1109
VL  - 8
IS  - 4
N2  - OBJECTIVEs  Our aim in this study was to translate the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A), State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-A and B) scales to Arabic, linguistically validate them for use in a representative sample of the Lebanese population, and to check the reliability of these Arabic versions.     Methods  This study is cross-sectional, conducted between November 2017 and March 2018, which enrolled 1332 community dwelling participants using a proportionate random sample from all Lebanese Mohafazat.     Results  Three factor analyses for the anxiety scales were run over the whole sample (N = 1332). All of the HAM-A, STAI-A and STAI-B items could be extracted from the list. All items from all the scales did not over-correlate to each other (r > 0.9), did not have a low loading on factors (<0.3) or a low communality (<0.3). The factor analysis results showed 2 factors for HAM-A (Cronbach alpha = 0.921), 3 factors for STAI-A (Cronbach alpha = 0.928) and STAI-B (Cronbach alpha = 0.898). A significantly high ICC was found between the HAM-A, STAI-A (ICC = 0.709) and STAI-B (0.704). In addition, a significantly high ICC was found between the STAI-A and B scales (ICC = 0.884).     Conclusion  The linguistically validated Arabic versions of these scales can be used to screen for anxiety among the Lebanese populations.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2452-0918
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cegh.2020.03.028
ID  - ref1
ER  -