Assessing the fear of COVID-19 scale among health care workers in Israel: a psychometric validation study

Carolyn E Hawley1, Kanako Iwanaga1, Anat Marmor2

  • 1Department of Rehabilitation Counseling, College of Health Professions, Virginia Commonwealth University, VA, USA.

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|September 24, 2021
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