2022
DOI: 10.1186/s42506-021-00099-6
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Worry from contracting COVID-19 infection and its stigma among Egyptian health care providers

Abstract: Backgrounds Healthcare providers (HCPs) in COVID-19 epidemic face stressful workload of disease management, shortage of protective equipment and high risk of infection and mortality. These stressors affect greatly their mental health. The aim is to identify working conditions among Egyptian HCPs during COVID-19 epidemic as well as stigma and worry perceptions from contracting COVID-19 infection and their predictors. Methods A cross-sectional study … Show more

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“…Alarmingly, 75.53% of the FSH nurses had no experience in supporting the front line of prevention and control of COVID-19. Unlike Osman's ( 57 ) study on stigma and worry perceptions among Egyptian healthcare providers from contracting COVID-19 infection, there was no difference in epidemic prevention and control experience in stress load classes. Even so, we suggest that medical institutions gradually establish a comprehensive training system for nursing emergency human resources, organize and implement drills based on the COVID-19 outbreak, and reserve many professional nursing emergency rescue teams for epidemic prevention and control.…”
Section: Discussioncontrasting
confidence: 70%
“…Alarmingly, 75.53% of the FSH nurses had no experience in supporting the front line of prevention and control of COVID-19. Unlike Osman's ( 57 ) study on stigma and worry perceptions among Egyptian healthcare providers from contracting COVID-19 infection, there was no difference in epidemic prevention and control experience in stress load classes. Even so, we suggest that medical institutions gradually establish a comprehensive training system for nursing emergency human resources, organize and implement drills based on the COVID-19 outbreak, and reserve many professional nursing emergency rescue teams for epidemic prevention and control.…”
Section: Discussioncontrasting
confidence: 70%
“…There are some possible explanations about the effect on mental health. For instance, being a medical student during a pandemic may be a stigma at this time due to the contact history with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 patients ( 36 ). Previous study also indicated COVID-19-related discrimination is associated with internalized stigma, which in turn predict psychological symptoms over time ( 37 ).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Then there was a rise in the total number of cases and deaths. In parallel, there was a growing rise in the number of infected nurses and physicians [ 4 ]. In October 2020, Egypt was the 46 th country in the entire world and the 8 th Arab country affected by this virus.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%