The Relationship between Fear of COVID-19 and Self-Medication and the Rate of Antibiotic Use in Patients Referred to COVID-19

Table 5

Correlations between self-medication, fear of corona, and antibiotic use.

Variables	Fear of corona		Self-medication		Self-medication with antibiotics
	value	Spearman correlation coefficient	value	Spearman correlation coefficient	value	Spearman correlation coefficient
Self-medication	0.255	−0.072		1	0.001	0.624
Fear of corona		1	0.255	−0.072	0.319	−0.063
Self-medication with antibiotics	0.319	−0.063	0.001	0.624		1