Table 3.
Correlations of the total CSS and its scales with the scales of COVID-related fear and anxiety-related traits in patients with ADs as well as inter-correlations among the CSS scales in patients with OCD and ADs.
| COVID 19-related fear | Anxiety-related traits | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patients with ADs | FCV-19S | C19P–S | SHAI | VOCI checking | VOCI contamination | HCQ-54 physical concerns | PHQ-4 |
| Total CSS | 0.60 | 0.68 | 0.46 | 0.57 | 0.63 | 0.41 | 0.44 |
| DAN | 0.49 | 0.59 | 0.44 | 0.49 | 0.57 | 0.38 | 0.35 |
| SEC | 0.41 | 0.54 | 0.34 | 0.51 | 0.55 | 0.32 | 0.40 |
| XEN | 0.61 | 0.59 | 0.35 | 0.48 | 0.54 | 0.32 | 0.36 |
| TSS | 0.64 | 0.67 | 0.43 | 0.51 | 0.49 | 0.40 | 0.42 |
| CHE | 0.56 | 0.50 | 0.36 | 0.40 | 0.47 | 0.30 | 0.36 |
| Inter-correlations | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1- DAN | – | ||||||
| 2-SEC, ADs/OCD | 0.74/0.67 | – | |||||
| 3-XEN, ADs/OCD | 0.81/0.89 | 0.71/0.67 | – | ||||
| 4- TSS, ADs/OCD | 0.62/0.84 | 0.55/0.59 | 0.61/0.80 | – | |||
| 5- CHE, ADs/OCD | 0.60/0.74 | 0.45/0.53 | 0.54/0.70 | 0.69/0.78 | – |
Note: COVID-19 = coronavirus disease 2019; CSS=COVID Stress Scales; DAN = danger and contamination fears; SEC = socio-economic consequences fears; XEN = xenophobic fears; TSS = traumatic stress symptoms; CHE = compulsive checking; FCV-19S = Fear of COVID-19 Scale; C19P–S=COVID-19 Phobia Scale; SHAI=Short Health Anxiety Inventory; PHQ-4 = Patient Health Questionnaire-4; VOCI=Vancouver Obsessional-Compulsive Inventory; HCQ-54 = Health Concerns Questionnaire-54; ADs = anxiety disorders; OCD = obsessive-compulsive disorder.
All correlations are significant (p < 0.01).