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Quality of Life among Nurses Working at Primary Health Care Centers during COVID-19 Pandemic Disease

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Last updated: 28 Dec 2024

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Community health nursing

Abstract

Background: COVID-19 is the most recent pandemic, with a significant morbidity and
mortality rate over the world. COVID-19 is considered a type of the crises that have an impact on
the mental and physical health of nurses
Aim of study: Was to assess quality of life among nurses
working at Primary Health Care Centers during COVID- 19 pandemic disease.
Research design: A
descriptive design was used to carry out this study.
Setting: Multi stage random sample was used to
select the Primary Health Care Centers in Qaliobia Governorate then 25% of them were selected
randomly including three administrations (Benha, Toukh and Kafr Shokr).
Sample: Convenient
purposive sample of nurses working in the selected settings were chosen including 192 nurses.
Tools: Three tools were used, I): A structured interviewing questionnaire was used to assess A)
Socio- demographic characteristics of nurses in Primary Health Care Centers. B) Nurses'
knowledge toward COVID-19. C) Nurses working at Primary Health Care Centers practices
regarding COVID-19. II): Quality of life scale for nurses during COVID-19. III): An observational
checklist were used to assess the environment at Primary Health Care Centers.
Results: 65.6% of
the nurses had good total knowledge level, 91.1% had satisfactory total practices level and 44.3% of
them had moderate total quality of life level during COVID-19.
Conclusion: There were highly
statistically relations between total knowledge level of nurses and age, gender, level of educational
and years of experience, while there were statistically significant relations between total knowledge
level of nurses and their marital status, their monthly income and receiving courses about infection
control.
Recommendations: Periodic workshops for nurses to improve their knowledge and
practices regarding COVID- 19 pandemic disease.


DOI

10.21608/jnsbu.2022.244337

Keywords

Key words: COVID 19 Pandemic, Nurses, quality of life, Primary Health Care Centers

Authors

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Seham

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Yousry Abd- Elaziz Mohamed

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B.Sc. Nursing-Tanta University (2009), Egypt,

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Hanaa

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Abd –El Gawad Abd El- Megeed

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Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Benha University, Egypt

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Basma

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Mohamed Abd Elrahman

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Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Benha University, Egypt

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Volume

3

Article Issue

2

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35042

Issue Date

2022-07-01

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2022-06-01

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2022-07-01

Page Start

211

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225

Print ISSN

2682-3934

Online ISSN

2735-5802

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Scientific peer reviewed journal

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Journal of Nursing Science Benha University

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Quality of Life among Nurses Working at Primary Health Care Centers during COVID-19 Pandemic Disease

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23 Jan 2023