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The responses and changes made to the manuscript in reply to the reviewers’ comments [
The novelty of this study [
The grammatical errors in the manuscript have been corrected.
The keywords have been corrected.
The
The literature review for this study has been expanded with relevant scholarly articles.
The concurrent validity of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale with the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 scale and the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 have been compared with the available prior evidence.
Footnotes have been provided for the abbreviations in the table.
Other correlation values have been added to Table 4 along with
For very small
For Tables 4 and 5, the format has been corrected with clarity and written as per journal guidelines.
Less scholarly journal articles have been removed and references are written as per guidelines.
* and *** to indicate significance levels in the Abstract have been removed.
GAD-7 is the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale and PHQ-9 is the Brief Patient Health Questionnaire; this is indicated clearly in the main text in addition to the footnotes of the table. Different terms for the two scales have been removed and corrected.
Articles about university students regarding their psychological distress have been cited more, including Pramukti et al [
The reference category for the categorical independent variable is indicated in Table 4.