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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Alamri, Hasan S
• Mousa, Wesam F
• Algarni, Abdullah
• Megahid, Shehata F
• Al Bshabshe, Ali
• Alshehri, Nada N
• Alsamghan, Awad
• Alsabaani, Abdullah
• Mirdad, Rasha T
• Alshahrani, Asrar M
• Gadah, Alya A
• Alshehri, Almah A

Titel

COVID-19 Psychological Impact on Health Care Workers in Saudi Arabia

Ist Teil von

• International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021-06, Vol.18 (11), p.6076

Ort / Verlag

Switzerland: MDPI AG

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

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Quelle

Free E-Journal (出版社公開部分のみ）

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Little is known about the impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) among the health care workers in Saudi Arabia. Therefore, the present study aimed to assess the psychological impact of COVID-19 among the health care workers. A cross-sectional survey was conducted from May till mid-July among 389 health care workers from government and private hospitals in Saudi Arabia. Data was collected using a pre-structured online questionnaire that measured adverse psychological outcomes, including the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) scale and the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item (GAD-7) scale. The Pearson chi-square test was used to assess the distribution of depression and anxiety among health care workers. A high level of anxiety was recorded among the health care workers, and 69.3% of health care workers below the age of 40 were found to have depression. There was a significant increase in depression among staff with chronic health problems (72.1% vs. 61.9%; = 0.048). High anxiety levels were detected among young staff compared to others (68.7% vs. 43.8%; = 0.001). Moreover, 82.1% of the female staff were anxious, as compared to 55.6% of the males ( = 0.001). We found increased prevalence of adverse psychological outcomes among the health care workers in Saudi Arabia during the outbreak of COVID-19. Therefore, there is a need for proper screening and development of corresponding preventive measures to decrease the adverse psychological outcomes.