TY  - JOUR
T1  - INVESTİGATİON OF ANXİETY STATUS OF NURSES TAKİNG CARE OF PATİENTS WİTH COVİD-19
AU  - Caner, Muhdedir
AU  - Kaya, Tülay
AU  - Peker, Seydi Ali
AU  - Başer, Ömer
AU  - Peker, Kevser
AU  - Erciyes Gökgöz, Zeliha
AU  - Albayrak, Yusuf
PY  - 2021
DA  - December
JF  - USCEH Dergisi
PB  - Uluslararası Sterilizasyon Cerrahi Enfeksiyon Hemşireleri Dernegi
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2792-0615
SP  - 10
EP  - 25
VL  - 1
IS  - 1
LA  - tr
AB  - Backround:Healthcare professionals are more exposed to emotional stress factors in service delivery, increased workload, moral dilemmas, greatly differentiation of familiar practices, staying at the center of a rapidly developing practice environment. These situation burden their mental health and cause emergence of anxiety and depressive symptoms.Purpose:The purpose of this study is investigation of anxiety levels that may develop in the psychological conditions of nurses working in Covid-19 clinics, to take precautions in line with the results and to create a basis for nurses to overcome the process more easily in new epidemics.Methods:Nurses work in the Covid-19 Quarantine clinic from Kırıkkale (N= 220), İstanbul (N= 200) and Ankara (N= 133) were included in the studybetween June 2020 and August 2020. A questionnaire on sociodemographic characteristics and a 21-item multiple-choice Beck Anxiety Scale (BAI) were used. Datas were analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics 21.0 (IBM Corporation, Armonk, NY, USA) statistical package program.Results:The anxiety levels were were statistically significantly higher in Ankara and Istanbul than Kırıkkale (p<0.001). It was determined that the average anxiety score in Kırıkkale province was 32 points, the average anxiety score in Ankara was 40 points, the average anxiety score in Istanbul was 33 points, and the anxiety level in all three provinces was found to be severe.Conclusions/ Implications for Practice:As a conclusions, the Covid-19 pandemic caused high anxiety in nurses. In order to make improvements in the health service provision of nurses who work with high devotion, it can be aimed to reduce anxiety rates in case of possible new epidemics or worsening of the current pandemic process, based on national and international standards.For improvements, informations should made about ways to cope with stress psychologically by using media and social media. Evidence-based psychological health services should provided for those working in workplaces
KW  - Anxiety
KW  - Nurses
KW  - Covid-19
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