Table 2: Comparison of The Level of Fear Of COVID-19 according to various demographic variables.

- Low High p-value Mean ±SD p-value
Age (Years) - - - - -
30-40 71 153 < 0.001 25.2 ±4.8 < 0.001a
41-50 99 90 22.6 ±4.7
51-60 13 23 24.6 ±5.2
- - - - - -
Gender - - - - -
Male 132 87 < 0.001 22.1 ±4.8 < 0.001b
Female 51 179 25.9 ±4.3
- - - - - -
Marital status - - - - -
Married 19 23 < 0.001 23.6 ±5.2 < 0.001a
Living together 135 150 23.1 ± 4.7
Single 29 93 26.3 ±4.7
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Educational level - - - - -
Illiterate 31 9 < 0.001 20.2 ±4.1 < 0.001a
Primary 121 176 23.7 ±4.4
Secondary 20 60 27 ±5.3
Workforce education 11 21 24.9 ±5.3
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Occupation - - - - -
Stable worker 43 144 < 0.001 25.9 ±4.2 < 0.001a
Occasional 126 57 21.1 ±4.6
Unemployed 14 65 26.4 ±3.9
- - - - - -
Relative at home infected with COVID-19? - - - - -
Yes 7 201 <0.001 27.9 ±2.6 < 0.001b
No 176 65 20.6 ± 3.9
- - - - - -
Death relative at home by COVID-19? - - - - -
Yes 2 86 < 0.001 29.2 ±2.9 < 0.001b
No 181 180 22.8 ±4.5

aKruskal-Wallis test;bMann-Whitney test.