Background:The 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is highly contagious and can spread a pandemic, so it is related to serious health issues and major public concerns, and is considered by the medical community to be the greatest concern because it is the greatest risk of infection.Objective: To identify and assess the psychological effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare professionals in Khartoum state hospitals 2021.

Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic caused by a newly discovered coronavirus. Although clinical manifestations of COVID-19 are mainly pulmonary, some patients have other systemic manifestations. This study aimed to describe the clinical finding and outcomes in Sudanese patients diagnosed with COVID-19. Methods This retrospective observational study is based on documented files that included patients diagnosed with COVID-19 in seven selected hospitals inside Khartoum. Clinical manifestations, complications and outcomes were extracted from patients’ records using an extraction form designed for this study. Results Data of 243 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 were analyzed. The mean (SD) age in years was 55.8 (18.4). Out of 116 participants, 27 of them (23.3%) had severe disease, 15 (12.9%) were critically ill. 67.5% of patients were admitted to the hospital within 7 days from onset of symptoms; most of them were admitted to the wards (n = 140,72.5%). Fever (83.2%), cough (70.7%), and shortness of breath (69.2%) were the most commonly recorded clinical manifestations. Sepsis (9.8%) and acidosis (7.8%) were the most frequently reported complications. Death was the final outcome in 21.4% (56/243). Older age and presence of diabetes were found significantly associated with in-hospital death. The laboratory results showed high CRP in 85.6% (119/139), high ferritin in 88.9% (24/27), lactate dehydrogenase had a median of 409.0 (359–760), D-dimer had a median of 3.3 (1.2–16. 6), and 53/105 (50.5%) had low albumin. Conclusions Fever was the most mentioned sign among the participants, followed by fatigue. Cough and shortness of breath were the most commonly recorded pulmonary symptoms manifested. Our study showed multiple variables were associated with in-hospital death. The mortality rate was high among severe and critically ill patients diagnosed with COVID-19.

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Background: The 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is highly contagious and can spread a pandemic, so it is related to serious health issues and major public concerns, and is considered by the medical community to be the greatest concern because it is the greatest risk of infection .Objective: To identify and assess the psychological effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on healthcare professionals in Khartoum state hospitals 2021.Materials and Methods: Generalized anxiety scale (GAD-7), Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10) and Work-family balance measure scale were used to assess the Psychological impact of Doctors and nurses working in four big hospitals in Sudan ,by an online questionnaire, analyzed by the statistical package for social science (SPSS) during February.Results: Most of the participants had minimal to mild anxiety according to GAD-7 score, 121 (35.2%) and 103 (29.9%) respectively.Using PSS-10 the cutoff point was determined as 19 as the mean for total score was 19.2 ± 6.2, accordingly more than half had high levels of stress (scored 19 and above) 189 (54.9%). For the Work-Family Balance scale, 10 was regarded as the cutoff point. There was a significant association between specialty and stress level p-value 0.032. No significant correlations were found between age and stress level, neither between age and anxiety level (r − .100, p-value .064 and r = − .022, p-value .683 respectively).Conclusion: More than half of healthcare professionals (54.9%) showed high levels of stress.Most of the healthcare professionals had poor work-family balance (60.2%).