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Perspectives and Experiences among Health Staff Work Field Professionals Recovered from COVID-19: Qualitative Study

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Last updated: 24 Dec 2024

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Background: COVID-19 had become one of the major health crises, as it threatened the lives of people of all nations, continents, races, and socioeconomic groups. Uncontrolled increases in COVID-19 cases necessitate urgent responses and require sometimes quarantine of the entire communities, Aim: This study aimed to explore the perspectives and experiences among Health staff work field professionals recovered from COVID 19. Methods: A Qualitative descriptive phenomenological research design is adopted on a purposive sample of 8 adult health work field survivors recovered from COVID 19. A face-to-face audio-recording interviews, using structured, semistructured and open-ended questionnaire, were utilized to collect the data pertinent to the study. Results: Participants' ages range from 23 to 37 years old. Four main themes and seven related subthemes reflected and shaped the participants' perspectives and experiences which are their attitudes toward COVID 19, COVID-19 similar/unsimilar symptoms experienced, COVID-19: the generator of fear and worries, and lastly the experience of isolation. The seven related subthemes are negligence adhering COVID-19 preventive precautions, pay attention to the news, infection concealing with COVID-19: reasons and rationale, the isolation decision and challenge for quarantine, provoked emotion, realization of the value and meaning of things and home isolation as survival assisting practices. Conclusions: The findings of this study highlighted the perspectives and experiences among health staff work field professionals recovered from COVID 19. Recommendations: Further qualitative and quantitative studies are recommended.

DOI

10.21608/asnj.2022.154733.1414

Keywords

experiences, health field professionals, Perspectives, Qualitative research, recovered Covid 19

Authors

First Name

Ehsan

Last Name

Yahia

MiddleName

Ahmed

Affiliation

Lecturer of Medical Surgical Nursing Faculty of Nursing, Cairo University, Egypt

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ehsanyahia@cu.edu.eg

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القاهرة

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0000-0002-1289-9960

First Name

Ola

Last Name

Abdo Elmetwaly

MiddleName

Ibrahim

Affiliation

Lecturer of Medical Surgical Nursing Faculty of Nursing, Cairo University, Egypt

Email

olaabdoh@cu.edu.eg

City

Giza

Orcid

0000-0003-3067-1086

First Name

Shimaa

Last Name

Abdalgeleel

MiddleName

Abdalaleem

Affiliation

Assistant Professor of Cancer Epidemiology & Biostatistics National Cancer Institute, Cairo University, Egypt

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shimaa.abdalgeleel@nci.cu.edu.eg

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Cairo

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10

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32

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36263

Issue Date

2022-09-01

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2022-08-11

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2022-09-01

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30

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37

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2314-8845

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2682-3799

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1,727

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Assiut Scientific Nursing Journal

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https://asnj.journals.ekb.eg/

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Perspectives and Experiences among Health Staff Work Field Professionals Recovered from COVID-19: Qualitative Study

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22 Jan 2023