Open AccessPredictive factors affecting stress among nurses providing care at COVID‐19 isolation hospitals at Egypt
Author(s) -
Hendy Abdelaziz,
Abozeid Ahmed,
Sallam Gehan,
Abboud Abdel Fattah Hadya,
Ahmed Abdelkader Reshia Fadia
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
nursing open
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.55
H-Index - 12
ISSN - 2054-1058
DOI - 10.1002/nop2.652
Subject(s) - covid-19 , isolation (microbiology) , medicine , nursing , perceived stress scale , cross sectional study , scale (ratio) , stress (linguistics) , family medicine , psychology , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , linguistics , philosophy , physics , pathology , quantum mechanics , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
Aims To examine predictive factors affecting stress among nurses providing care at COVID‐19 Isolation Hospitals at Egypt. Methods A cross‐sectional study conducted in five Isolation governmental hospitals for COVID‐19. 374 nurses included at the study. Characteristic forms, factors affecting nurses’ stress and Nursing Stress Scale (NSS) were used to collect data. Results (52.1%) of studied nurses had moderate level of total nursing stress scale. Also, (26.2%) of them had severe level, while (13.4% & 8.3%) of them had mild and normal level, respectively. Mean SD score of studied nurses regarding to total nursing stress scale was 99.47 ± 10.671. Conclusions Training for COVID‐19, availability of PPE, educational level and attention of hospital administration were negative predictor factors for nurses’ stress, while having children, people showed that COVID‐19 is stigma, fears of infection, workplace, fear of transmission infection for family and nurse to patient ratio were positive predictors.