Journal of Pharmaceutical Microbiology

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic has led to psychological health issues one of which is fear. This study validates the Arabic version of the fear of COVID-19 scale and suggests a new cutoff score to measure fear of COVID19 among the Syrian Population. A total of 3989 participants filled an online survey consisting of sociodemographic information, the fear of COVID-19 scale, the patient health questionnaire 9- item, and the generalized anxiety disorder 7-item. Receiver operating characteristic analysis was used to define cutoff scores for the fear of COVID-19 scale in relation to generalized anxiety disorder 7-item and the patient health questionnaire 9-item.