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Saudi Journal of Nursing and Health Care (SJNHC)
Volume-4 | Issue-09 | 266-270
Original Research Article
Psychological Impacts of COVID-19 on Nurses at a Tertiary Care Hospital
Sumera Imtiaz, Rukhsana Kousar, AyeshaIshtiaq, Maria Mushtaq, Perveen Ismat, Uzma Firdos
Published : Sept. 16, 2021
DOI : 10.36348/sjnhc.2021.v04i09.002
Abstract
Introduction: Corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the newly developed respiratory disease that is caused by a novel Corona virus which was first testified in Wuhan, China in December 2019.The common clinical manifestations of this highly infectious disease, fever, dry cough, tiredness and less common symptoms are aches, pain, sore throat, diarrhea, conjunctivitis, headache, loss of taste or smell, a rash on skin, or discoloration of fingers or toes. The most Serious symptoms which can put the patient in life threatening condition are difficulty breathing or shortness of breath, chest pain or pressure, loss of speech or movement (WHO, 2020). The health care workers' adherence to the recommended measures taken to prevent trans mission are inevitable to minimize the increasing number of COVID-19 cases. This can be achieved by enhancing knowledge, positive attitudes, and infection control practices of the frontline workers. Objective: To analyze the covid-19 fear and anxiety among health care professionals especially front line nurses who are putting their efforts to serve and save life of public at a tertiary care hospital Lahore. Evaluate the psychological impact of COVID -19 on nurses. Every one suffers a great fear but this pandemic and lack of proper research based articles and increased mortality rate leads to psychological stress among nurses. Material and method: This was a cross-sectional quantitative study; Nurses who were directly in contact with infected or suspected COVD-19 patients on the frontline were invited to participate by random sampling method. An international standardized psychological impact questionnaire was used to see the psychological impact of COVID-19 on nurses. Data was collected by the researchers through electronic media. Results: Result from 10 May 2021, a Total of 100 electronic questionnaires were collected, of which 20 questionnaires were excluded because of the uncompleted answer finally 80 valid questionnaires were included in the analysis. All the analysis were conducted using SPSS Descriptive statistic were presented as frequency and constituent ratio mean and standard deviation SD were calculated for quantitative variables such as age, according to the data type. Categorical variables such as gender, marital status education, and family type were expressed as frequencies and percentages. Psychological impact of COVID-19 was coded as dichotomous variables and licked scale according to the evaluation method of the scale. thus the relationship between psychological impact and categorical variable Age, Gender, education level etc, was analysis by Chi-square test, the comparison of psychological impact among nurses the four point Likert scale of worried ness such as “Never” “ Sometime” “ Often” “ Always”. Liner regression model were developed to explore the impact association among health care and to estimate the possible, demographic predictors by using unadjusted and adjusted model of Age, Gender. Marital status, education. Conclusion: The study result revealed that 88.8% of the frontline nurses experienced psychological distress, evidenced by their score on the GHQ. 68.8% nurse was suffered from insomnia due to excessive stress. 80.0% nurses always feel you under tension due to performing duty on COVID19.only 60.0% nurses were enjoyed their leisure time after their shift. The nurses 52.5% said they understand that they can’t solve problems.
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