THE DETERMINATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ANXIETY AND FEAR CAUSED BY COVID-19 AND THE SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC FEATURES AND PREDICTIVE EFFECT

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Anxiety and fear are important problems that cause individual's problem and quality of life. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between anxiety and fear in individuals due to Covid-19 and sociodemographic characteristics, and to investigate the anticipation of anxiety and fear to covid-19. This research was conducted as a relational screening method between 20 March and 8 April 2020. 1200 volunteers participated in the study. Visual Scala Scale was applied to students online. The individuals participating in the study were asked to score between 0-10 on their perception of anxiety and fear due to Covid-19. In the scale questions, participants were asked to show your subjective perception on a ruler numbered from 0 to 10. In this case, 0 anxiety and fear, 10 most anxiety and fear options were asked to be filled among those included in the research. For the predictive effect of the one-way Anova and anxiety and fear variable, simple regression analysis methods were performed. In the light of the research results, there is a relationship between anxiety and fear levels due to covid-19 and gender, age, education and marital status. We also found that Covid-19 was a significant predictor of participants' anxiety and fear levels