ArticleAnnales medico-psychologiques2021
Validation of the fear of COVID-19 scale in South Africa: Three complementary analyses.
Article in Annales medico-psychologiques, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed.
- Unmasking Distress: An Analysis of COVID-19's Mental Health Impact on Nurses in South Africa.Western journal of nursing research · 2025Article
- Fear of COVID-19, Perceived Stress, and PTSD: The Serial Mediating Role of Sense of Coherence.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2023Article
- From fear and vulnerability to fortitude: sustaining psychological well-being in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.South African journal of psychology = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir sielkunde · 2023Article
- Teacher Burnout in the Time of COVID-19: Antecedents and Psychological Consequences.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Factors Associated with COVID-19-Related Stress among Female Primary Caregivers in Vulnerable Families in South Africa.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2023Article
- COVID-19 fear among junior undergraduate nursing students during the pandemic in South Africa.Health SA = SA Gesondheid · 2023Article
- Deriving Meaning from Chaos: The Mediating Role of the Sense of Coherence in the Serial Relationships among Fear of COVID-19, Indices of Psychological Distress, and Life Satisfaction.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Parallel exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis of the Hungarian Fear of COVID-19 Scale in a large general population sample: a psychometric and dimensionality evaluation.BMC public health · 2022Article
- The Health-Sustaining, Moderating, and Mediating Roles of Sense of Coherence in the Relationship between Fear of COVID-19 and Burnout among South African Teachers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Clinical condition, Resuscitation and Medical-Psychological Care of Severe COVID-19 patients (part 2).Annales medico-psychologiques · 2022Article
- Clinical condition, resuscitation and medical-psychological care of severe COVID-19 patients (part 1).Annales medico-psychologiques · 2022Article
- A serial model of the interrelationship between perceived vulnerability to disease, fear of COVID-19, and psychological distress among teachers in South Africa.Annales medico-psychologiques · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Fear is the most common response to disease outbreaks. Persistent and prolonged fear can elevate the levels of psychological distress and aggravate preexisting mental health problems. Therefore, prompted by the central role of fear in psychological responses to COVID-19, the Fear of COVID-19 Scale was developed, which is the only instrument that can assess emotional fear reactions in relation to the current pandemic. In this study, we extend research on the psychometric properties of this instrument by adopting three complementary approaches: classical test theory, Rasch analysis, and Mokken analysis. Combining these methods allows for a more nuanced overview of the psychometric properties of the instrument. The sample comprised South African teachers (
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.