Souheil Hallit, Sahar Obeid, Chadia Haddad, Rabih Hallit, Marwan Akel, Georges Haddad, Michel Soufia, Wael Khansa, Rony Khoury, Nelly Kheir, Christiane Abi Elias Hallit, Hala Sacre, Pascale Salameh
Objective: The study objectives were (1) to create a new 10-item scale, the 'Lebanese Anxiety Scale' (LAS-10), inspired by the diagnostic criteria of DSM-5, and the HAM-A and STAI scales and (2) to evaluate the performance of this new scale on a sample of Lebanese individuals. Methods: This cross-sectional study enrolled 1332 community dwelling participants between November 2017 and March 2018. Results: In sample 1, the participants' mean age was 28.08 years (63.9% females). The LAS items converged over a solution of two factors that had an Eigenvalue over 1, explaining a total of 51...
March 31, 2020: International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice