Objective: To identify the factors associated with fear of COVID-19 prior to returning to in-person classes among medicalstudents. Materials and methods: An observational, analytical and cross-sectional study. Through convenience sampling, aquestionnaire was administered to 252 students from a medical school in Huancayo, Peru. The questionnaire consisted of a first section comprising the study information and informed consent, another one devoted to the sociodemographic characteristics and a last section which included validated questionnaires used in similar contexts, such as the Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S), and a psychological questionnaire, i.e., the DASS-21 questionnaire, made up of three subscalesthat assess both the presence and level of depression, anxiety and stress. To determine the correlation between thescales, the Pearson correlation coefficient was used. In addition, cr...