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  • Impact of Event Scale-6 (IES-6) for U.S. adults who experienced the COVID-19 pandemic

    2022.12.29
  • 관리자
    • 학술지 구분
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    • 저자명
    Jiin Jeong, Ah‑Ram Kim, Claudia Hilton and Ickpyo Hong
    • 학술지, 권/호/쪽
    BMC Psychiatry volume 22, Article number: 490 (2022)
    • DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-04136-2
    • Abstract
    Objective : COVID-19 pandemic causes psychological problems such as stress. It is important to accurately identify the level of stress and establish efective intervention. The Impact of Event Scale-6 (IES-6) is widely used for post-trau‑ matic stress disorder (PTSD) screening by measuring the level of subjective stress, but there has been no research on its psychometric properties with individuals who experienced the COVID-19 pandemic.
    Methods : A random sample of 600 participants were randomly selected from a COVID-19 survey database (n=6391). Rasch analysis was conducted to examine item ft, rating scale structure, construct validity, diferential item functioning (DIF), and precision of the IES-6.
    Results : The principal component analysis of Rasch residuals (54.1% of the raw variance explained) and the average of residual correlations (average r=.19) supported the unidimensionality structure in the IES-6. The rating scale was suitable, and the item difculty hierarchy was logical. The item ft and the DIF contrast were acceptable, except for item 5. The IES-6’s person reliability was .76, which was also an acceptable level.
    Conclusion : This study showed that the IES-6 has acceptable item-level psychometrics for screening the stress level in adults in the United States for individuals who have experienced the COVID-19 pandemic. The fndings suggested that the IES-6 would be useful for the rapid identifcation of the high-level stressand allow clinicians to quickly provide interventions for people with the COVID-19 related stress and their families.