Assessing Psychological Response to the COVID-19: The Fear of COVID-19 Scale and the COVID Stress Scales

Affiliations

¹ 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, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 11 Yuk Choi Rd, Hung Hom, Hong Kong.

^# Contributed equally.

Amir H Pakpour et al. Int J Ment Health Addict. 2021.

. 2021;19(6):2407-2410.

doi: 10.1007/s11469-020-00334-9. Epub 2020 May 29.

¹ 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, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 11 Yuk Choi Rd, Hung Hom, Hong Kong.

^# Contributed equally.

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