Table 2. Score of items on the stress and anxiety to viral epidemics-9 (n = 1,019).
| Items | Responses to items | Skewness | Kurtosis | CID | Mean ± SD | Factors | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Never | Rarely | Sometimes | Often | Always | I | II | ||||||
| Factor 1. Anxiety about the viral epidemic | 14.22 ± 4.20 | |||||||||||
| Item 1. Are you afraid the virus outbreak will continue indefinitely? | 21 (2.1%) | 82 (8.0%) | 166 (16.3%) | 568 (55.7%) | 182 (17.9%) | −0.934 | 0.899 | 0.773 | 2.79 ± 0.90 | 0.621 | 0.507 | |
| Item 2. Are you afraid your health will worsen because of the virus? | 42 (4.1%) | 213 (20.9%) | 286 (28.1%) | 400 (39.3%) | 78 (7.7%) | −0.315 | −0.621 | 0.757 | 2.25 ± 1.00 | 0.808 | 0.546 | |
| Item 3. Are you worried that you might get infected? | 36 (3.5%) | 199 (19.5%) | 257 (25.2%) | 438 (43.0%) | 89 (8.7%) | −0.405 | −0.569 | 0.763 | 2.34 ± 1.00 | 0.789 | 0.411 | |
| Item 4. Are you more sensitive towards minor physical symptoms than usual? | 47 (4.6%) | 200 (19.6%) | 178 (17.5%) | 424 (41.6%) | 170 (16.7%) | −0.461 | −0.721 | 0.768 | 2.46 ± 1.12 | 0.708 | 0.418 | |
| Item 5. Are you worried that others might avoid you even after the infection risk has been minimized? | 210 (20.6%) | 442 (43.4%) | 176 (17.3%) | 160 (15.7%) | 31 (3.0%) | 0.589 | −0.454 | 0.774 | 1.37 ± 1.07 | 0.534 | 0.519 | |
| Item 8. Do you worry your family or friends may become infected because of you? | 17 (1.7%) | 51 (5.0%) | 122 (12.0%) | 550 (54.0%) | 279 (27.4%) | −1.101 | 1.625 | 0.770 | 3.00 ± 0.86 | 0.674 | 0.501 | |
| Factor II. Work-related stress associated with the viral epidemic | 6.08 ± 2.28 | |||||||||||
| Item 6. Do you feel skeptical about your job after going through this experience? | 252 (24.7%) | 406 (39.8%) | 178 (17.5%) | 139 (13.6%) | 44 (4.3%) | 0.657 | −0.382 | 0.788 | 1.33 ± 1.12 | 0.338 | 0.743 | |
| Item 7. After this experience, do you think you will avoid treating patients with viral illnesses? | 82 (8.0%) | 288 (28.3%) | 244 (23.9%) | 345 (33.9%) | 60 (5.9%) | −0.127 | 1.625 | 0.786 | 2.01 ± 1.09 | 0.371 | 0.589 | |
| Item 9. Do you think that your colleagues would have more work to do due to your absence from a possible quarantine and might blame you? | 28 (2.7%) | 115 (11.3%) | 161 (15.8%) | 504 (49.5%) | 211 (20.7%) | −0.808 | 0.182 | 0.791 | 2.74 ± 1.00 | 0.396 | 0.429 | |
Cronbach's alpha for the final nine items was 0.795.
CID = Cronbach's alpha if item is deleted, SD = standard deviation.