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To date, there is a dearth of studies emerging from the Arabian Gulf, where the majority of its population are children and adolescents. The study aims to examine the prevalence of anxiety-related symptoms and their covariates among children and adolescents in an Arabian Gulf country, Oman. This is a cross-sectional analytic study carried out over two weeks (1st to 15th of August 2020) during the COVID-19 pandemic across Oman. Parents were asked to complete the online survey, which consisted of the parent version of the\n                    <jats:italic>Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders<\/jats:italic>\n                    (SCARED) instrument and questions regarding basic socio-demographic information. Logistic regression was used to identify the contributing variables associated with anxiety-related symptoms. A total of 790 valid responses were received. Among the 790 children, 33.3% (n\u2009=\u2009263) were diagnosed with anxiety-related symptoms by the SCARED instrument. Logistic regression analysis suggested that anxiety-related symptoms in children and adolescents were significantly associated with three demographic variables. The model shows that children with divorced or separated parents were 1.9 times more likely to have anxiety-related symptoms than children of married couples (OR\u2009=\u20091.93, p\u2009=\u20090.035). Children living in families with an income below USD 1000\/month, were 1.8 times more likely to have anxiety-related symptoms than a family with an income of USD 4000\/month (OR\u2009=\u20091.833, p\u2009=\u20090.018). Children in grades 3\u20136 were 1.8 times more likely to have anxiety-related symptoms than those in grades 1\u20132 (OR\u2009=\u20091.79, p\u2009=\u20090.024). Anxiety-related symptoms are common among Omani children and adolescents. 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