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The cut-off score in accordance with the mild degree of generalized anxiety symptoms (GAD-7 score of 5) was defined using the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Findings:<\/jats:bold> The single-structure model of each scale (the adapted version of SAVE-9 and SAVE-6) was adopted based on the results of the parallel analysis. Because SAVE-6 showed good construct validity, but the adapted version of SAVE-9 did not, we adopted to apply the SAVE-6 scale to assess the anxiety response of public workers in response to the viral epidemic. SAVE-6 showed good internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha = 0.817; McDonald's Omega = 0.818) and good convergent validity with GAD-7 (rho = 0.417, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001) and PHQ-9 (rho = 0.317, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001) scale scores. 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