The distress of Iranian adults during the Covid-19 pandemic - More distressed than the Chinese and with different predictors

Asghar Afshar Jahanshahi; Maryam Mokhtari Dinani; Abbas Nazarian Madavani; Jizhen Li; Stephen X Zhang

Participants answered the survey on their gender, age bracket, education level, number of children, whether they had Covid-19, exercise hours per day in the past week, working situation (work from home; work in office, etc.), employment status (employed, unemployed, studying, and retired) and the Covid-19 Peritraumatic Distress Index (CPDI) 5 . CPDI is an index of 24 questions designed to capture the frequency of specific phobias and stress disorders relevant to Covid-19, including anxiety, depression, specific phobias, cognitive change, avoidance and compulsive behavior, physical symptoms and loss of social functioning 5 . CPDI ranges from 0 to 100. CPDI was originally developed in Chinese, and we had the index translated from its English version to Persian. The English and Persian versions of CPDI, as well as its scoring key can be found in the appendix.