Open AccessPrevalence of Psychological Effect of COVID-19 on Medical Professionals in a Tertiary Care Center
Author(s) -
Surendra Lal Shrestha
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of nepal medical association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.176
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1815-672X
pISSN - 0028-2715
DOI - 10.31729/jnma.5087
Subject(s) - medicine , preparedness , anxiety , pandemic , confidence interval , family medicine , mental health , covid-19 , nursing , psychiatry , disease , political science , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law
COVID-19 is a pandemic disease first detected in Wuhan, China on last December 2019. Many doctors and nurses, were infected and lost their life by COVID-19 around the world. Therefore COVID-19 brought unbearable psychological pressure on doctors, and nurses. The objective of this study is to find the prevalence of anxiety among medical doctors and nurses.