The present study was conducted to construct Corona Anxiety Questionnaire and examining its validity and reliability. According to the results, this questionnaire is a valid tool among Iranian people with a desirable reliability number and excellent convergent and discriminant values. The results of exploratory factor analysis presents a document that this questionnaire has 8 dimensions: Sensitivity to Cleaning, New disorders in the corona effect, Social sensitivity and touch, Background of anxiety and psychological disorders, Social support, Sensitivity to provides individual responsibility, Verbal Avoidance of Illness, and Sensitivity to religious beliefs, which is also confirmed by CFA Factor Analysis (CFA). These 8 dimensions explain about half of the variance between variables.
According to the DSM-IV-TR classification, the category of anxiety disorders includes obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic attack, pervasive anxiety disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. This classification is based on the effect of anxiety on external behavior, such as hand washing or avoiding discussion about fear and anxiety (14). Relying on this type of classification, the present questionnaire also included obsessive-compulsive disorder as anxiety disorders, and in addition to past and new anxiety symptoms due to corona, it has paid attention to past and new obsessive-compulsive symptoms.
The components extracted in the Sensitivity to Cleaning dimension include Sensitivity to behavioral symptoms, Obsessive to wash, Sensitivity to physical symptoms, Physically avoid people, Run away from people because of fear of illness, Hesitance of Life priorities, Obsession of exist Corona virus and Obsessive symptom in effected of Corona.
In the Mazdeli Obsession Questionnaire, which includes 4 subscales of Obsessive to wash and check, slowness, and doubt, the subclass of obsessive to wash asks questions similar to the Sensitivity to Cleaning scale of this questionnaire(15, 16). The components extracted in the New Disorders in the Corona effect dimension include Obsessive of sin, Dream disorder in effected of Corona, Psychosomatic in effected of Corona, Thought of Suicide, Anxiety from environmental cues, Depression symptoms, and History of anxiety disorders.
The DSM-IV-TR refers to the classification of a variety of anxiety disorders as anxiety disorders caused by general medical illness. The sub-scale of new disorders in the corona effect is considered based on this division (14).
The components extracted in the Social sensitivity and touch dimension include Obsessive about awareness, Obsessive about awareness, Distrust to people, Sensitivity about touch, Run away from people because of the fear of poverty and Obsessive to wash. This scale in the classification of delusional disorders is a subset of the bite and injury delusion. DSM-IV-TR divides this disorder into belief in injury and conspiracy by strangers by others (14).
The components extracted in the Background dimension of anxiety and psychological disorders include History of healthy obsessive, History of mental disorders, History of Psychosomatic and Disbelief about obsession. In addition to the fact that DSM-IV-TR considers a significant amount of anxiety disorders as a result of people's pathology backgrounds (14), the MMPI questionnaire (17) also considers this issue under the topic of the causes of disorders.
The components extracted in Sensitivity to individual responsibility include Distrust to people, Obsessive about Feel guilty in the Verbal Avoidance of Illness dimension including Sensitivity to talk about Corona and Sensitivity to talk about Corona and Sensitivity to religious beliefs including Commitment to religion and Belief to support by God.
Research has shown that religious beliefs can be a powerful preventative against anxiety disorders and have a better prognosis for sufferers (18). Therefore, the level of trust in God and religious rites was included in this questionnaire. In this way, it can be found that the components of Corona Anxiety Questionnaire are in accordance with the components mentioned in the theoretical and experimental texts, and the findings of the present study confirm its validity and reliability. But it's important to note that Cronbach's alpha is less than 0.05 in three dimensions, Background of Anxiety and Psychological Disorders, Social Support, and Verbal Avoidance of Illness. Furthermore, Question 17, entitled History of healthy obsessive with a correlation of 0.31, which is less than the appropriate standard of 0.4, is in its dimension (Background of anxiety and psychological disorders). Finally, this questionnaire was conducted only on Iranian people, and therefore its generalization to individuals in other countries requires further study.