Post-traumatic Stress Symptoms in Health Care Professionals During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Autor: İsmail Gökhan Kalaycı, Özge Canbek, Sevda Bağ
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: İstanbul Medical Journal, Vol 23, Iss 4, Pp 310-315 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2619-9793
2148-094X
DOI: 10.4274/imj.galenos.2022.74151
Popis: Introduction:The severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) associated pneumonia that emerged in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and was later declared by the World Health Organization to be a pandemic has called coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). Our study aims to determine the anxiety levels, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms levels and psychiatric symptoms of healthcare workers working at pandemic hospital and effects of these symptoms on psychological adjustment to healthcare professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey.Methods:This study was cross-sectional survey study and conducted between March 2020-June 2020 with 973 consenting participants working at the pandemic hospital. For the study, we used an online questionnaire, which consisted of three parts: an online-informed consent, basic sociodemographic information and a set of online questions. The data were collected by the researchers. All procedures were approved by our hospital’s Ethics Committee. Traumatic Stress Symptom Scale (TSSS) was used for the study.Results:Nine hundred and seventy-three persons participated in the study. Among the three groups, nurses also had the highest fear of dying during the COVID-19 pandemic (p
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