The translation and validation of the surgical anxiety questionnaire into the modern standard Arabic language: results from classical test theory and item response theory analyses - Alghamdi, Abdulmajeed Abdullah; Alghuthayr, Khalid; Alqahtani, Saad Sh. S. M. M.; Alshahrani, Ziyad Ali; Asiri, Abdullah Mohammed; Ghazzawi, Hadeel; Helmy, Mai; Trabelsi, Khaled; Husni, Mariwan; Jahrami, Haitham (BMC psychiatry, 2024)
Keywords: Accuracy; Adult; Anxiety; Anxiety - diagnosis; Anxiety - psychology; Anxiety disorders; Anxiety measurement; Arabic language; Cognitive behavioral therapy; Cognitive therapy; Counseling; Cross-Sectional Studies; Evaluation; Factor analysis; Fear & phobias; Female; Health surveys; Heart rate; Humans; Interpreters; Item response theory; Kappa coefficient; Language; Male; Methods; Middle Aged; Patient outcomes; Patient-reported outcomes; Patients; Physiology; Preoperative anxiety; Psychological aspects; Psychological tests; Psychometrics; Quantitative psychology; Questionnaires; Relaxation; Reproducibility of Results; Surgery; Surgical anxiety; Surgical outcomes; Surveys and Questionnaires - standards; Translating; Translation; Translations; Translations and translating; Validity; Validity and reliability; Worry; Africa; Validity and reliability; Surgical anxiety; Anxiety measurement; Patient-reported outcomes; Preoperative anxiety; Item response theory