Fear of COVID-19 among undergraduate and postgraduate students in Pakistan

Rafiq, N, Rafique, S, Griffiths, MD ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8880-6524 and Pakpour, AH, 2023. Fear of COVID-19 among undergraduate and postgraduate students in Pakistan. Trends in Psychology, 31 (1), pp. 194-209. ISSN 2358-1883

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Abstract

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has changed the lifestyles of individuals all over the world, induced a fear of virus transmission and confusion, and brought about many other potentially devastating psychological impacts. To minimize the spread of COVID-19, governments all over the world have implemented various practices including lockdowns, home quarantines, spatial distancing, and online teaching within schools, colleges, and/or universities. The present cross-sectional study was carried out to investigate the associations between socio-demographic factors and fear of COVID-19 among undergraduate and postgraduate students in public universities Lahore, Pakistan. Data were collected utilizing an online Google Forms survey based on a convenience sample of 397 undergraduate and postgraduate students of public universities (78% female; mean age = 24 years), enrolled in the subject of education (54%) and psychology (46%) when the virus was spreading rapidly throughout Pakistan. All the participants completed the Fear of COVID-19 Scale and questions concerning socio-demographic variables. Results indicated that the fear of COVID-19 was higher among the education students and female students. Fear of COVID 19 (i.e., scores on the FCV-19S) was positively associated with the participants’ personal or family history of illness and number of deaths in family. The level of fear of COVID-19 was different among the students who had physical illness, psychological illness, and no any history of illness personally or in their family.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Trends in Psychology
Creators:	Rafiq, N., Rafique, S., Griffiths, M.D. and Pakpour, A.H.
Publisher:	Springer
Date:	March 2023
Volume:	31
Number:	1
ISSN:	2358-1883
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1007/s43076-021-00115-w DOI 1486912 Other
Rights:	Post-prints are subject to Springer Nature re-use terms
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Laura Borcherds
Date Added:	09 Nov 2021 09:56
Last Modified:	13 Mar 2023 14:38
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/44654

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