Open AccessAnxiety and Depression Differences Between the Nurses Working at a COVID-19 Pandemic Hospital
Author(s) -
Mehmet Tercan,
Firdevs Tuğba Bozkurt,
Gülçin Patmano,
Gülben Saraçoğlu,
Sibel Gür
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
medical science and discovery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2148-6832
DOI - 10.36472/msd.v7i6.389
Subject(s) - anxiety , medicine , depression (economics) , pandemic , context (archaeology) , covid-19 , mental health , psychiatry , nursing , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , paleontology , biology , economics , macroeconomics
Objective: To investigate anxiety and depression differences between the nurses working at a COVID-19 pandemic hospital in Turkey.
Material and Methods: A quantitative approach using a survey was applied. There were 331 nurses recruited by convenience sampling.
Results: Females have higher anxiety scores at a significant level (p=0.017). It was also found that nurses who have family members with chronic disease have higher depression scores than nurses who do not have at a significant level (p=0.376). Similarly, nurses who have elderly family members have higher depression and anxiety scores than nurses who do not have at a significant level (p=0.008). There was a significant difference between the nurses providing and not providing COVID-19 care for depression scores (p=0.002).
Conclusion: This study explores nurses’ depression and anxiety levels. Even though this phenomenon has already been studied, the outbreak of COVID-19 draws more attention to health workers and especially nurses who are part of the pandemic context. Nurses who provide COVID-19 care have higher depression and anxiety scores. Nurses who help patients to recover from COVID-19 should be in functional mental status. Thus, governments, health organizations, and hospital administrations should take adequate steps to reduce nurses’ depression and anxiety to sustain a healthy world.