Gender and Fear of COVID-19 in a Cuban Population Sample
Gender and Fear of COVID-19 in a Cuban Population Sample
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DOI：
10.1007/s11469-020-00343-8
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发表时间：
2020-06-12
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8
通讯作者：
Rodriguez-Martin, Boris C.
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作者：
Broche-Perez, Yunier;Fernandez-Fleites, Zoylen;Rodriguez-Martin, Boris C.
COVID-19 大流行是一场全球性卫生紧急事件，可能对公共卫生产生严重影响。恐惧是当前大流行期间人们最常见的心理反应之一。本研究的目的是比较不同性别对 COVID-19 的恐惧，并检验性别之间的差异是否可以预测对 COVID-19 评分的恐惧。采用了基于网络的横断面调查设计。样本包括 772 名古巴参与者。使用对 COVID-19 的恐惧量表来探索样本中的恐惧反应。进行了独立样本测试来比较性别之间对 COVID-19 的恐惧评分，并通过多项逻辑回归建模来识别与对冠状病毒的恐惧独立相关的变量。在我们的样本中，平均而言，女性参与者对 COVID-19 的恐惧明显高于男性。参与者的性别显着预测了对 COVID-19 的恐惧程度。女性身份是对 COVID-19 中度和高度恐惧的预测因素。女性处于中等恐惧水平的几率是男性的 3.13 倍，而女性处于高恐惧水平的几率是男性的 3.45 倍。我们的研究结果证实了国际研究表明，在 COVID-19 大流行期间，女性的心理脆弱性更大。这一结果表明需要设计干预措施，减少当前疫情对女性心理健康的负面影响。
The COVID-19 pandemic is a global health emergency that could potentially have a serious impact on public health. Fear has been one of the most frequent psychological reaction in the population during the current pandemic. The aim of this study was to compare fear of COVID-19 between genders and to examine whether the differences between genders may be predictors of fear of COVID-19 scores. A cross-sectional web-based survey design was adopted. The sample comprised 772 Cuban participants. The Fear of COVID-19 Scale was used to explore fear reactions in the sample. An independent-samplesttest was conducted to compare the fear of COVID-19 scores between genders, and multinomial logistic regression was modeling to identify variables independently associated with fear of coronavirus. In our sample, on average, female participants experienced significantly greater fear of COVID-19 than men. The gender of participants significantly predicted the level of fear of COVID-19. Being female was a predictor of medium and high levels of fear of COVID-19. The odds of a female with middle fear levels compared to low fear was 3.13 times more than for a male, and the odds of a female with high fear levels compared to low fear was 3.45 times more than for a male. Our results corroborate international research that indicate a greater psychological vulnerability in women during the COVID-19 pandemic. This result points to the need to design interventions that reduce the negative impact of the current outbreak on women's mental health.