The COVID Psychosocial Impacts Scale: A Reliable and Valid Tool to Examine the Psychosocial Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Sandila Tanveer, Philip J Schluter, Ben Beaglehole, Richard J Porter, Joseph Boden, Ruqayya Sulaiman-Hill, Damian Scarf, Shaystah Dean, Fatima Assad, Mahammad Abul Hasnat, Caroline Bell, Sandila Tanveer, Philip J Schluter, Ben Beaglehole, Richard J Porter, Joseph Boden, Ruqayya Sulaiman-Hill, Damian Scarf, Shaystah Dean, Fatima Assad, Mahammad Abul Hasnat, Caroline Bell

Abstract

This paper reports on the development and validation of the COVID Psychosocial Impacts Scale (CPIS), a self-report measure that comprehensively examines both positive and negative psychosocial impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the first part of the program of work in which the CPIS was administered and compared with a measure of psychological distress (Kessler Psychological Distress Scale, K-10) and wellbeing (World Health Organization Well-Being Index, WHO-5). The data were obtained online in 2020 and 2022 at two distinct time points to capture different exposures to the pandemic in the New Zealand population to a non-representative sample of 663 and 687 adults, respectively. Two hundred seventy-one participants took part in both surveys. Findings indicate a unidimensional structure within CPIS subscales and inter-relatedness among CPIS stress-related subscales. The scatter plots and correlation matrix indicate CPIS having a positive moderate correlation with K10 and a negative moderate correlation with WHO-5, indicative of construct validity. The paper outlines contextual factors surrounding CPIS development and makes suggestions for future iterations of CPIS. Further work will examine its psychometric properties across cultures.

Keywords: COVID-19; psychological distress; psychosocial impacts; reliability; validity; wellbeing.

Conflict of interest statement

All authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as potential conflicts of interest.

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Showing Scatter Plot Showing a Positive Linear Correlation between COVID Psychosocial Impacts Scale (CPIS) and Kessler 10 (K10); and a Negative Linear Correlation between CPIS and World Health Organization Well-Being Index 5 (WHO-5) for Participants Who Responded to the Education-related Stress Subscale.
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Showing Scatter Plot Showing a Positive Linear Correlation between COVID Psychosocial Impacts Scale (CPIS) and Kessler 10 (K10); and a Negative Linear Correlation between CPIS and World Health Organization Well-Being Index 5 (WHO-5) for Participants Who Responded to Faith-related Stress Subscale.
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Scatter Plot Showing Correlation between COVID Psychosocial Impacts Scale (CPIS) Composite Scores with Kessler 10 (K10), and World Health Organization Well-Being Index 5 (WHO-5).

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