02634nas a2200313   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002260003500043653001200078653001300090653001600103653002400119653001300143100002900156700002800185700002400213700002600237700002600263700002000289700002300309700002500332245011600357856006700473300001200540490000700552520173400559022001302293020001402306       2020                            d  c12/2020bElsevier Espana S.L.U10aAnxiety10aCOVID-1910aReliability10aUniversity students10aValidity1 aTomás Caycho-Rodríguez1 aMiguel Barboza-Palomino1 aJosé Ventura-León1 aCarlos Carbajal-León1 aMartín Noé-Grijalva1 aMiguel Gallegos1 aMario Reyes-Bossio1 aAndrea Vivanco-Vidal00aSpanish translation and validation of a brief measure of anxiety by the COVID-19 in students of health sciences  uhttps://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1134793720300348  a174-1800 v263 aIntroduction and objectives
COVID-19 has generated negative consequences for people's mental health. This is the case of Peru, one of the Latin American countries most affected by the pandemic. In this sense, the objective of the study was to translate and validate the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale (CAS) into Spanish.

Material and method
The participants were 704 university students of health sciences (Mage = 23.39 years, SD = 3.45) who were administered the CAS in Spanish, the Mental Health Inventory-5 and the Patient Health Questionnaire-2 item. The CAS was translated into Spanish using the forward and backward method. Reliability and evidence of validity based on internal structure and relationship with other variables were examined.

Results
The factor analysis confirmed the one-dimensional factor structure of the CAS (χ2 = 7.62, df = 5, p = .18, χ2 / gl = 1.52, CFI = .99, RMSEA = .03 [90% CI .00, .06]; SRMR = .02, WRMR = .52); In addition, the factor loadings were large and significant (from .68 to .87). The five CAS items showed acceptable corrected total test item correlations (from .64 to .74). Reliability due to internal consistency was good (ω = .89; αordinal = .89). The validity evidence based on the relationship with other CAS variables was supported by the positive correlation with depression (r = .52, p < .01) and negative with subjective well-being (r = -.50, p < . 01). Furthermore, depression mediates the relationship between COVID-19 anxiety and subjective well-being (bootstrap value = - .24, 95% CI = - .28, - .20).

Conclusion
The Spanish version of the CAS has evidence of validity and reliability to measure anxiety by COVID-19 in a sample of Peruvian university students.  a11347937  a2174-0437