TABLE 3.

Mean ratings and standard deviation (SD) of participants’ scores to assess knowledge and fear about COVID-19 and its means of contamination.

Covid knowledge		Covid fear		Covid means of contamination
Items	Means (SD)	Items	Means (SD)	Items	Means (SD)
It causes respiratory diseases	3.56 (0.56)	To get seriously ill	2.92 (0.91)	By contact with fluids(e.g., blood)	2.84 (1.03)
It was generated in a laboratory	1.82 (0.89)	My beloved persons got harmed by the virus	3.62 (0.54)	By cough or sneeze	3.67 (0.49)
It was created by a secret agency	1.34 (0.65)	Damages in my profession or work	2.37 (0.98)	By contact with objects or clothings	2.66 (0.86)
It is a banal flu	1.37 (0.61)	Generation of wars or social conflicts	2.59 (0.93)	By air conditioning installations	2.07 (0.94)
It affects only old people	1.57 (0.76)	Impossibility to find a vaccine	2.48 (1.01)	By food	1.55 (0.78)
It can damage everyone	3.63 (0.54)	Impossibility to find valid therapies against the virus	2.58 (0.97)	By domestic animals	1.17 (0.43)
It can kill only people with other illnesses	2.12 (0.83)	The high probability to be contaminated	3.33 (0.71)	By wild animals	1.42 (0.70)
Animals transmitted it to human beings	2.44 (1.12)	High level of virus mutation	3.12 (0.84)
It can be defeated only with medicines	2.20 (0.98)