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Perceived Stress and its Contributing Factors among a Group of Egyptian Women during COVID-19 Lock-down

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Last updated: 24 Dec 2024

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Background: The pandemic of corona virus disease [COVID]-19 had its great impacts on global health due to the increasing both morbidity and mortality. In addition, being quarantined is linked with high stress levels, insomnia, irritability and trauma-related disorders particularly in vulnerable populations. Therefore, there is a need to assess accurately and timely the magnitude of psychological health outcomes in those having exposure to COVID-19 pandemic.
The Aim: The current work aimed to assess the perceived stress level among a group of Egyptian women and to explore the potential contributing factors for that during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Methods: A cross-sectional survey targeted educated women from different Egyptian governorates, and of different socioeconomic standards. The total sample was 286 women who were recruited by non-probability snowball sampling and through a semi-structured, online questionnaire comprising socio-demographic data, the validated Arabic version of Cohen Perceived Stress Scale 10 [PSS]. Possible contributing factors of the perceived stress due to COVID-19 were also inquired.
Results: total females who responded to the questionnaire were 286 with mean age of 46.5± 11.0 years. During the quarantine period, the total score of the perceived stress scale was 17.1±5.37, and both high and moderate levels of stress were recorded among 73.4% of the studied sample. Stress level was significantly influenced by disruptions of social communication with friends and families, "getting basic needs for health and safety are unmet then ", conflicts between mother and her children represented as a load", being younger women [below 50 years], and "feel stressed due to inability for social gatherings".
Conclusion: COVID -19 pandemic has its obvious psychological impact on females, and many factors were contributing to such situation, which put the spotlight on the importance of taking these impacts into consideration when designing policies to slow the spread of the pandemic.

DOI

10.21608/ijma.2021.79373.1322

Keywords

COVID-19, perceived stress, stress level, contributing factors

Authors

First Name

Hanaa

Last Name

Abou elhassan

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine for Girls, Al-Azhar University, Egypt

Email

hanaaabouelyazid@azhar.edu.eg

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Orcid

-

First Name

Heba

Last Name

Abd ElGalil

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine for Girls, Al-Azhar University, Egypt

Email

hebamohamed.medg@azhar.edu.eg

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-

Orcid

-

First Name

Omneya

Last Name

Elsherif

MiddleName

E.

Affiliation

Department of Family Medicine, Cairo University Hospital, Egypt

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oelsherif@hotmail.com

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-

Orcid

-

First Name

Safaa

Last Name

Hamouda

MiddleName

Mahmoud

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Egypt

Email

saf_a2@yahoo.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

-

First Name

Omaima

Last Name

Aboushady

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt

Email

omaymaaboshady@gmail.com

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-

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-

First Name

Nadia

Last Name

Kotb

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Department of Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt

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dr_nadiakotb@yahoo.com

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-

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-

First Name

Amal

Last Name

Saad-Hussien

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-

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Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, National Research Centre, Egypt

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amel_h@hotmail.com

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-

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3

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3

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27050

Issue Date

2021-07-01

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2021-06-06

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2021-07-01

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1,671

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1,680

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2636-4174

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2682-3780

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IJMA_Volume 3_Issue 3_Pages 1671-1680.pdf

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International Journal of Medical Arts

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Perceived Stress and its Contributing Factors among a Group of Egyptian Women during COVID-19 Lock-down

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22 Jan 2023