A study on fear of the students from covid-19 at University of Basrah, Bab Al-Zubair campus

Background: Corona virus is invading world and causing a high level of mortality and morbidity so creating some sort of fear at different levels. Aim: To assess the fear of corona in the colleges students at University of Basrah, Bab Al-Zubair campus. Methodology: The present study carried out at University of Basrah, Bab Al-Zubair campus. A convenient sample of (400) students, males (168) and females (232) were selected for the purpose of the study. A Closed-end questions questionnaire was used for the purpose of data collection, it contains two parts, the first part related to Socio-demographic characteristics of the students and include: age, gender, the educational stage, type of the study, occupational status, and marital status. The second part consists of 14 questions that are concerned with students fear from COVID-19. Standardized 3- points Likert scale including: YES, NO, and SOMEWAHT. The already performed questionnaire forma was distributed to 400 students were they read the forma and answer them, the forma then collected by the researchers, each forma was scored according to the right typical answer. Analysis was made by using SPSS (Statistical package for Social Sciences) version 23, data was expressed in (frequency and percentage). Correlations were used to examine the association between different variables. Results: Most of the students were at age interval from 18 years to 24 years, the females are more than males in participating in our study. Most of our participant were from the morning study. Most of the sample of the students did not have job other than being students. Most of the students answer the questionnaire in wright way. There was high significant correlation between scoring and the students stage, and also there were significant correlation between scoring and student’s occupation.