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Predictive factors affecting stress among nurses providing care at COVID-19 isolation hospitals at Egypt
Abdelaziz Hendy1, Ahmed Abozeid2, Gehan Sallam3
1Assistant Lecturer at Pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
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.
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