Prevalence of anxiety towards COVID-19 and its associated factors among healthcare workers in a Hospital of Ethiopia

Teshome, Diriba; Fenta, Efrem; Hunie, Metages; Tamire, Tadese

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0243022

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“…In a highly burdened area of northeastern Italy, a study showed that 50.1% of healthcare workers showed anxiety symptoms and 26.6% had moderate depressive symptoms (15). The incidences of anxiety and depressive symptoms among clinical doctors in our study were lower than those in previous studies (12,14,15). The possible reasons for these differences were as follows: first, the Chinese government had taken prompt and effective measures to enhance the sense of security of its citizens and to release frequent information on the epidemic.…”

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“…In this study, we found that the incidence of anxiety and depressive symptoms among clinical doctors was approximately 11.1 and 16.90%, respectively, which was lower than that of previous studies conducted in other countries (12,14,15). Furthermore, we found that female doctors and those who have a minor child were associated with an increased risk of anxiety and depressive symptoms.…”

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confidence: 65%

“…A previous study showed that in Malaysia, 31.60% of healthcare workers experienced depression and 29.1% had anxiety symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic (12). A study in Ethiopia showed that the prevalence of COVID-19-related anxiety was 63% (14). In a highly burdened area of northeastern Italy, a study showed that 50.1% of healthcare workers showed anxiety symptoms and 26.6% had moderate depressive symptoms (15).…”

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Risk Factors for Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms in Doctors During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic

Wang

Zhang³

et al. 2021

Front. Psychiatry

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Background: The purpose of our study was to investigate the prevalence of anxiety and depressive symptoms and their risk factors among doctors during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.Methods: A hospital-based survey study was conducted. Anxiety symptoms were assessed using the Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS), and depressive symptoms were assessed using the Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS). Multivariable logistic regression was used to analyze anxiety and depressive symptoms across independent variables.Results: A total of 1,521 doctors were included; 11.11% (169/1,521) of the doctors had anxiety symptoms, and 16.90% (257/1,521) had depressive symptoms. Female sex [adjusted odds ratio (aOR), 1.69; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.21–2.34; P = 0.002] and having a minor child (aOR, 2.31; 95% CI, 1.50–3.56; P < 0.001) were associated with an increased risk of anxiety symptoms. Female sex (aOR, 1.56; 95% CI, 1.18–2.06; P = 0.002) and having a minor child (aOR, 1.48; 95% CI, 1.06–2.01; P = 0.022) were associated with an increased risk of depressive symptoms. Older age (aOR, 0.97; 95% CI, 0.98–0.99; P = 0.008) was associated with a decreased risk of depressive symptoms.Conclusions: Anxiety and depressive symptoms have been common mental health problems in doctors during the COVID-19 pandemic. We found that female sex, having a minor child, and younger age were major risk factors for the development of anxiety and depressive symptoms among doctors during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Risk Factors for Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms in Doctors During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic

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Zhang³

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“…Ethiopia reported 152,806 confirmed cases, and 2279 deaths [ 5 ]. COVID-19 cases may be understated due to the lack of adequate diagnostic resources to test a larger number of people and a flimsy health care system in low-income countries [ 6 ].…”

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Healthcare workers’ compliance and its potential determinants to prevent COVID-19 in public hospitals in Western Ethiopia

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Background Globally, Coronavirus disease-19 has created unprecedented challenges to public health. Healthcare workers (HCWs) are at risk of COVID-19 because of their profession. There are limited studies conducted in Ethiopia among HCWs regarding their compliance with COVID-19 preventive measures. Therefore, this study intended to assess HCWs’ compliance with measures to prevent COVID-19, and its potential determinants in public hospitals in Western Ethiopia. Methods A self-administered, multicenter hospital-based cross-sectional survey was proposed to 422 randomly selected HCWs working in seven public hospitals in Western Ethiopia identified as COVID-19 referral centers. Data were entered into Epi Data version 3.1 and analyzed using SPSS version 24. Binary logistic regression was used to identify potential determinants of outcome variables at p-value < 0.05. Results Out of 422 completed questionnaires, the overall HCWs’ compliance with COVID-19 prevention is 22% (n = 404). In multivariate regression analysis, factors such as spending most of caring time at bedside (AOR = 1.94, 95%CI, 1.06–3.55), receiving training on infection prevention/COVID-19 (AOR = 1.86, 95%CI, 1.04–3.33), reading materials on COVID-19 (AOR = 2.04, 95%CI, 1.14–3.63) and having support from hospital management (AOR = 2.09, 95%CI, 1.20–3.64) were found to be significantly associated with COVID-19 preventive measures. Furthermore, inadequate supplies of appropriate personal protective equipment (83.2%), insufficient supportive medications (78.5%), and lack of provision of adequate ventilation (77.7%) were the barriers to COVID-19 prevention most frequently mentioned by participants. Conclusion Our findings highlight HCWs’ poor compliance with COVID-19 preventive measures. Providing information and refreshing training to improve the level of healthcare workers’ adherence with COVID-19 prevention is as imperative as increasing staff commitment to supply resources necessary to protect HCWs and to reduce healthcare-associated infections transmission of SARS-COV-2.

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“…The present study reflects no PPE access (OR 0.43; 95% CI, 0.20-0.90) to be statistically significant with anxiety which is found similar with the study (OR, 2.55; 95% CI, 1.43, 4.56). (16)…”

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Anxiety and Depression among COVID Positive Frontline Health Care Workers in Nepal

Baral

Pandeya

Sapkota

2021

Int J Health Sci Res

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Background: COVID-19, an emerging contagious disease had affected all over the world and become a global health threat. Lockdown and restriction had made the life of the health care workers troublesome and psychosocial problems are exaggerated. Moreover, health care workers are the frontline workers to deal with the COVID-19 patients; they are at high risk. Due to social stigma and hectic schedule of work had made their life more stressful. The study aimed to assess anxiety and depression and its associated factors among COVID-19 positive frontline health care workers during COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: A web-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 323 COVID-19 positive health care workers working in different provinces of Nepal. The Google form was made by adopting GAD-7 for anxiety and PHQ-9 for depression and made available to study population through various social media. Results: The prevalence of anxiety and depression among the COVID-19 positive frontline health care worker was 39% and 35.5% respectively. The study showed significant association between staying with friend during pandemic (p 0.015), daily meditation (p 0.020), duty in isolation ward (p 0.027), unaware of incentives provision (p 0.034), stigma (p <0.001) with anxiety and education status (p 0.023), fear of dying from COVID-19 (p 0.045) and stigma (p 0.05) with depression in multiple logistic regression analysis. Conclusions: In the pandemic, COVID-19 positive frontline health workers had developed anxiety and depression symptoms. Training and sufficient preventive practice need to be implemented to control consequences of COVID 19 pandemic. Key words: Anxiety; Coronavirus; Depression; Frontline health workers, Nepal

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Prevalence of anxiety towards COVID-19 and its associated factors among healthcare workers in a Hospital of Ethiopia

Cited by 42 publications

References 25 publications

Risk Factors for Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms in Doctors During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic

Risk Factors for Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms in Doctors During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic

Healthcare workers’ compliance and its potential determinants to prevent COVID-19 in public hospitals in Western Ethiopia

Anxiety and Depression among COVID Positive Frontline Health Care Workers in Nepal

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