en <span style=font-size:12pt><span style=font-family:Times New Roman,serif><span style=color:black><b><span lang=EN-GB style=font-size:10.0pt><span style=font-family:Cambria,serif><span style=color:#4f81bd>Aims:</span></span></span></b> <span lang=EN-GB style=font-size:10.0pt><span style=font-family:Cambria,serif>Fear is a strategy for dealing with situations in which something is considered a threat. </span></span><span lang=EN-GB style=font-size:10.0pt><span style=font-family:Cambria,serif>This study aimed to assess the fear of COVID-19 and its effect on Quality of Life in pregnant women.</span></span></span></span></span><br> <span style=font-size:12pt><span style=font-family:Times New Roman,serif><span style=color:black><b><span lang=EN-GB style=font-size:10.0pt><span style=font-family:Cambria,serif><span style=color:#4f81bd>Instrument & Methods:</span></span></span></b> <span lang=EN-GB style=font-size:10.0pt><span style=font-family:Cambria,serif>In this cross-sectional study, 12,576 pregnant women were studied in six </span></span><span lang=EN-GB style=font-size:10.0pt><span style=font-family:Cambria,serif>Pontianak-Health-Centers </span></span><span lang=EN-GB style=font-size:10.0pt><span style=font-family:Cambria,serif>in West Kalimantan, Indonesia</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style=font-size:10.0pt><span style=font-family:Cambria,serif>. Three survey instruments, including a sociodemographic questionnaire, obstetric status, the Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S), and the QoL Gravidarum (QoL-GRAV), were used to assess for an association between fear of COVID-19 and pregnancy-related QoL using the Pearson correlation test. Generalized linear modeling was used to identify dominant variables.</span></span></span></span></span><br> <span style=font-size:12pt><span style=font-family:Times New Roman,serif><span style=color:black><b><span lang=EN-GB style=font-size:10.0pt><span style=font-family:Cambria,serif><span style=color:#4f81bd>Findings:</span></span></span></b> <span lang=EN-GB style=font-size:10.0pt><span style=font-family:Cambria,serif>The fear experienced by pregnant women had an average score of 21.6±9.6. The QoL average score was 25.0±8.7. </span></span><span style=font-size:10.0pt><span style=background:white><span style=font-family:Cambria,serif><span style=color:#212121>The general linear model showed </span></span></span></span><span lang=EN-GB style=font-size:10.0pt><span style=font-family:Cambria,serif>a dominant relationship between parity status (β=-0.083; t=-2.141; p=0.005) and job (β=-0.75; t=1.923; p=0.033) with QoL in pregnant women. COVID-19 had no significant relationship with QoL (β=-0.11; t=-2.809; p=0.055).</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style=font-size:10.0pt><span style=font-family:Cambria,serif></span></span></span></span></span><br> <span style=font-size:12pt><span style=font-family:Times New Roman,serif><span style=color:black><b><span lang=EN-GB style=font-size:10.0pt><span style=font-family:Cambria,serif><span style=color:#4f81bd>Conclusion:</span></span></span></b><span lang=EN-GB style=font-size:10.0pt><span style=font-family:Cambria,serif> There is no correlation between fear of COVID-19 and quality of life, while job and parity influence the quality of life in pregnant women.</span></span></span></span></span> Fear,COVID-19,Pregnant Women,Quality of Life, 701 706 http://hehp.modares.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-79295-1&slc_lang=en&sid=4