VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY TESTS ON GENERALISED ANXIETY DISORDER DIAGNOSTIC SCALE

Abstract

Generalized anxiety disorder is one of the most common anxiety disorders in society. The purpose of this study is to develop a diagnostic scale for generalized anxiety disorder because there is no self-report diagnostic tool for generalized anxiety disorder based on DSM-V and ICD-10 criteria in Indonesia. The items on the overall anxiety disorder scale have been tested use pre-tryout (readability test), content validity (S-CVI = 0.904) by a panel of judges, field tests on 210 adult participants aged 18-65 years which were then analyzed for validity (EFA and CFA) and reliability (alpha-cronbach = 0.911). This scale consists of 2 aspects, namely social-emotional symptoms and physiological symptoms with a total of 18 items that have satisfactory psychometric quality with construct model is unidimention. For further researchers, standardization and validation of criteria can be carried out by comparing this scale with the gold standard that is already available so that it can then be used in clinical practice