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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on nurses mental health status in Iraq
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic is a major health crisis that has changed the life of millions globally. Coronaviruses are viruses’ group that can contract animals and humans and the cause of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), and COVID-19. Nurses ar...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9683455/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36438991 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_637_22 |
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description | BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic is a major health crisis that has changed the life of millions globally. Coronaviruses are viruses’ group that can contract animals and humans and the cause of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), and COVID-19. Nurses are the primary service providers in the health care; nurses who are in close contact with infectious patients need to get their mental health checked and supervised on a regular basis, particularly with regard to stress, anxiety, and suicidal ideation, so that they can provide optimal quality of life and healthy mental health to have good care for patients to assess the impact of the pandemic on mental health status for nurses in Iraq. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of sample study (1000) nurses in Iraq completed an online questionnaire between March and May 2021. Psychological impact was assessed using the depression anxiety stress scale (DASS21). RESULTS: The study revealed impact COVID-19 on mental health status (anxiety stress) and no impact COVID-19 on mental health status (depression) for nurses was (P value = 0.040 and P value = 0.045, respectively). CONCLUSION: The impact COVID-19 on mental health status for nurses. Protecting the nursing staff from chronic stress, anxiety, and depression, which constitutes a psychological burden on health during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, by clarifying the disease and how to prevent it, as well as providing the personal protective equipment to decrease stress, anxiety, and depression during the pandemic. |
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spelling | pubmed-96834552022-11-24 Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on nurses mental health status in Iraq Hadi, Burhan Mohammed, Saja H. J Educ Health Promot Original Article BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic is a major health crisis that has changed the life of millions globally. Coronaviruses are viruses’ group that can contract animals and humans and the cause of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), and COVID-19. Nurses are the primary service providers in the health care; nurses who are in close contact with infectious patients need to get their mental health checked and supervised on a regular basis, particularly with regard to stress, anxiety, and suicidal ideation, so that they can provide optimal quality of life and healthy mental health to have good care for patients to assess the impact of the pandemic on mental health status for nurses in Iraq. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of sample study (1000) nurses in Iraq completed an online questionnaire between March and May 2021. Psychological impact was assessed using the depression anxiety stress scale (DASS21). RESULTS: The study revealed impact COVID-19 on mental health status (anxiety stress) and no impact COVID-19 on mental health status (depression) for nurses was (P value = 0.040 and P value = 0.045, respectively). CONCLUSION: The impact COVID-19 on mental health status for nurses. Protecting the nursing staff from chronic stress, anxiety, and depression, which constitutes a psychological burden on health during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, by clarifying the disease and how to prevent it, as well as providing the personal protective equipment to decrease stress, anxiety, and depression during the pandemic. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022-09-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9683455/ /pubmed/36438991 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_637_22 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Journal of Education and Health Promotion https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Hadi, Burhan Mohammed, Saja H. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on nurses mental health status in Iraq |
title | Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on nurses mental health status in Iraq |
title_full | Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on nurses mental health status in Iraq |
title_fullStr | Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on nurses mental health status in Iraq |
title_full_unstemmed | Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on nurses mental health status in Iraq |
title_short | Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on nurses mental health status in Iraq |
title_sort | impact of the covid-19 pandemic on nurses mental health status in iraq |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9683455/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36438991 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_637_22 |
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