The scale was aimed at the people in the general Iranian population who are Iranian, aged 18 years or older, and able to understand spoken Persian or Farsi. The sample the researchers got in the end was a sample size of 717 individuals with a mean age of 31.25 and an average of 8.9 years of education. More than half of the participants were males (n = 416; 58%), and nearly one-fifth of the participants were current smokers (n = 139; 19.4%)

Participants in Study of the "Fear of COVID-19 Scale"

- Demographic Information
- Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
- Perceived Vulnerability to Disease Scale
- Data Analysis

Measures for Validation in Study of the "Fear of COVID-19 Scale"

- Deleted 3 more items
- The remaining 7-items were all satisfactory in both item and scale level
- Significance Correlation with HADS and PVDS

Results in Study of the "Fear of COVID-19 Scale"

Syracuse University

Smith College

One of the reasons why little attention is paid on the psychological effect of Covid-19 in the current treatment is the lack of an appropriate psychometric instrument. Therefore, to be able to provide further information to facilitate public health initiatives on allaying public’s fears, a study in Iran developed and validated a scale assessing the fear of coronavirus. The researchers named the scale as the Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S)

The Fear of COVID-19 Scale: Development and Initial Validation

Ahorsu, D.K., Lin, C., Imani, V. et al. The Fear of COVID-19 Scale: Development and Initial Validation. Int J Ment Health Addiction (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-020-00270-8

- extensive literature review was conducted to assess all general scales on fear. (they had accessed up to 30 different scales. The relevant and possible items were pooled and similar content or expressions were removed
-  an expert panel evaluated the 28 items and deleted 11 items
- a different expert panel reviewed the remaining 17 items and deleted 7 more.
- the 10-item scale was piloted on 46 individuals to obtain initial assessment of the scale

Development of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale

Process of Validation for study of the "Fear of COVID-19 Scale"

- Summarization of Results
- How the Scales can Help
- Limitations

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