Assessing the psychological response to the COVID-19: A response to Bitan et al. "Fear of COVID-19 scale: Psychometric characteristics, reliability and validity in the Israeli population"

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¹ Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Research Institute for prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin 3419759811, Iran; Department of Nursing, School of Health and Welfare, Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden.
² International Gaming Research Unit, Psychology Department, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK.
³ Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong. Electronic address: cylin36933@gmail.com.

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Amir H Pakpour et al. Psychiatry Res. 2020 Aug.

. 2020 Aug:290:113127.

doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113127. Epub 2020 May 27.

¹ Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Research Institute for prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin 3419759811, Iran; Department of Nursing, School of Health and Welfare, Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden.
² International Gaming Research Unit, Psychology Department, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK.
³ Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong. Electronic address: cylin36933@gmail.com.

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The Fear of COVID-19 Scale: Development and Initial Validation.
Ahorsu DK, Lin CY, Imani V, Saffari M, Griffiths MD, Pakpour AH. Ahorsu DK, et al. Int J Ment Health Addict. 2022;20(3):1537-1545. doi: 10.1007/s11469-020-00270-8. Epub 2020 Mar 27. Int J Ment Health Addict. 2022. PMID: 32226353 Free PMC article.

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