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Aım: To test the Turkish validity and reliability of the fear of COVID-19 scale. Methods: The study was done as a validity and reliability study. This study was conducted with 1281 students who were studied in a nursing faculty of a university in Turkey between May and June 2020. Cronbach Alpha and item-total correlation were used for internal consistency, reliability and in-class correlation coefficients for scale validity, and Bartlett test and Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) were used for scale validity. Results: It was found that KMO test was significant at 0.89, Bartlett's test was significant on the level of p: .001 and Cronbach alpha internal consistency reliability coefficient is 0.91. the scale covered sole factor and accounted for 61.43% of the total variance. Conclusion: As a result of this research, Fear of COVID-19 Scale was found to be a reliable and valid measurement tool. © 2020 Lahore Medical And Dental College. All rights reserved.