Cross-Cultural Validity of Psychological Distress Measurement During the Coronavirus Pandemic

摘要

?Buy Article?Permissions and Reprints The coronavirus pandemic has had a disruptive impact on everyday life across large parts of the world [1]. Qiu et al. reported that, in China, more than one-third of respondents (34.4% of 52?730 respondents) experienced psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic [2]. To assess the psychological distress, they developed a COVID-19 Peritraumatic Distress Index (CPDI) questionnaire. However, the CPDI has never been applied in the European context. This highlights the importance of how the CPDI questionnaire might perform in a clinical setting to assess mental state of the general population in Germany. Here we take a similar approach to survey how people living in Germany are coping psychologically with the disruption engendered by the COVID-19 outbreak. We aim to provide advice to the public on how to prevent distress and build coping skills.