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The COVID-19 Crisis Outbreak: Healthcare Providers' Psychological State and Mental Health in Egypt

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Last updated: 24 Dec 2024

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Background: The rapid global spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in significant levels of fear, worry, and anxiety. Aim of the Study: This study aimed to assess the psychological state and mental health of healthcare providers-specifically their levels of compassion satisfaction, compassion fatigue, anxiety, and positive/negative emotions-during the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak. Subjects and Methods; Design: A crosssectional study was conducted from April to June 2020 using an online survey. Setting: The study was carried out in several governorates in Egypt as, Cairo (Kasr El Ainy Teaching Hospital), Al-garbia AL-Santa Central Hospital, Al-Sharqiya University Hospital, Alexandria University Hospital, AL-Monufia & Al-Dakahlia University Hospital. Subjects: A purposive sample of 233 healthcare providers, including  doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals, participated in the study. Tools of Data Collection: Four data collection tools were used: A socio-demographic data sheet, measures of compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue, the Beck Anxiety Inventory, and the Positive and  Negative Affect Schedule. Results: The results revealed that Prevalence of high Compassion satisfaction, high Positive affect level was 77.6%& 86.5% respectively, while Prevalence of high fatigue, high anxiety, and high negative emotion was 60.1%, 24.2%, and 30.5% respectively. It was
noticed that high positive affect score, sufficient sleeping hours per day, long experience were positive significant predictors of compassion satisfaction. While negative affect score was inverse significant predictor of compassion satisfaction among studied health care providers during COVID crisis. Conclusion: the healthcare providers had psychosocial problems and some mental issues because of COVID-19 emergency. Recommendation: Recovery programs and mental health interventions for the healthcare providers during the COVID-19 crisis and later on.

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10.21608/znj.2024.379840

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key words: Covid-19, healthcare providers, Psychological state, Mental health, Egypt

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Marwa

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El-slamoni

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Abd El-fatah Ali

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Assistant Professor of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing - Zagazig University, Egypt, & College of Nursing - Taif University, KSA

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Nashwa

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Abdel Karim

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Ahmed Hussein

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Assistant Professor of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing - Zagazig University, Egypt

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20

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2

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48915

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2024-07-01

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2024-09-14

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2024-07-01

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200

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218

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2090-6110

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3009-738X

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Zagazig Nursing Journal

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The COVID-19 Crisis Outbreak: Healthcare Providers' Psychological State and Mental Health in Egypt

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24 Dec 2024