An Acute Stress Scale for Health Care Professionals Caring for Patients With COVID-19: Validation Study.

José Joaquín Mira Angel Cobos Vargas Olga Beatriz Martínez-García María José Bueno Domínguez Maria Pilar Astier Peña Pastora Pérez-Pérez Irene Carrillo Murcia Mercedes Guilabert Mora Maria Virtudes Pérez-Jover César Fernández Peris Maria Asuncion Vicente Matilde Lahera-Martin Carmen Silvestre Susana Lorenzo-Martínez Ascension Sanchez Martinez Jimmy Martín-Delgado Aurora Mula Bárbara Marco-Gómez Cristina Abad Bouzán Carlos Aibar-Remon Jesús María Aranaz-Andresnull null

Published in: JMIR formative research (2021)

The EASE scale was shown to have adequate metric properties regarding consistency and construct validity. The EASE scale could be used to determine the levels of acute stress among the health care workforce in order to give them proportional support according to their needs during emergency conditions, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

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