The Short Health Anxiety Inventory (SHAI) is a well-established, self-report measure of health anxiety (HA). However, no psychometrically adequate Arabic-speaking version of this measure is yet available. This study was therefore designed to provide an Arabic version of the SHAI and assess its latent structure, measurement invariance across gender, and internal consistency reliability. Forty hundred and twenty-one Saudis completed the Arabic SHAI online (68.65% women), mean age 25.90, and standard deviation 6.65. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses in different subsamples suggested a 2-factor solution: (1) illness likelihood (IL) with 13 items and (2) negative consequences (NC) with 4 items. This structure was found invariant across gender. Cronbach’s α for the full scale, IL, and NC were .85, .83, and .77, respectively. Corrected item–total correlations for all items ranged from .35 to .68. Performance on the scale did not appear to correlate with gender, while age associated weakly but statistically significant with the total score and IL factor. The present Arabic SHAI appears to be a psychometrically promising tool for the assessment of HA. Further investigations of the scale psychometrics, particularly using a paper-and-pencil format, and clinical utility are warranted.

短期健康焦虑量表（SHAI）是一种建立完善的自我报告健康焦虑量表（HA）。但是，尚无此措施在心理上足够讲阿拉伯语的版本。因此，本研究旨在提供SHAI的阿拉伯版本，并评估其潜在结构，跨性别的测量不变性以及内部一致性可靠性。412名沙特阿拉伯人在线完成了阿拉伯语SHAI（女性占68.65％），平均年龄25.90和标准差6.65。探索性和验证性因素分析在不同子样本中提出了一种两因素解决方案：（1 ）有13个项目的疾病可能性（IL）和（2）负面后果（NC）有4个项目。发现这种结构在性别之间是不变的。克朗巴赫（Cronbach's）的全尺寸，IL和NC的α分别为0.85、0.83和.77。校正后的所有项目之间的项间总相关性介于0.35到.68之间。量表的表现似乎与性别无关，而年龄与总分和IL因子相关性较弱，但具有统计学意义。当前的阿拉伯语SHAI似乎是评估HA的心理上有希望的工具。值得进一步研究量表心理计量学，尤其是使用纸和铅笔格式，以及临床实用性。