Leigh M Harrell-Williams, Tara C Raines, Randy W Kamphaus, Bridget V Dever
Psychometric analysis of the BASC-2 Behavioral and Emotional Screening System (BESS) student form: Results from high school student samples
Psychological assessment
since beginning covid19 pandemic news related pandemic created feeling fear particularly among highrisk groups including elderly patients study aimed assess fear associated covid19 evaluate fear vision decrease related delay treatment neovascular agerelated macular degeneration patients namd pandemic prospective crosssectional study 160 actively treated patients namd enrolled september november 2020 tertiary hospital qubec canada participant demographic clinical data collected anxiety rated questionnaire composed two sections fear covid19 scale fcv19s eight additional questions assess ophthalmologyrelated covid19 statements mean standard deviation level fcv19s 1705438 multivariable analysis significantly higher women p0001 lower patients high school education vs elementary school p0009 ophthalmologyrelated statements 16 feared vision loss difficulties maintaining regular followups pandemic female gender significantly associated higher tendency postpone appointment p003 association found patients underlying disease characteristics higher fear vision loss despite massive impact pandemic anxiety related covid19 delaying ophthalmology treatments remained relatively low namd patients greater explanations address fear may reduce anxiety level especially among female patients elementary school education