Prevalence of depression and anxiety among healthcare providers during the COVID-19 era in Egypt – a cross-sectional study

Microbes and Infectious Diseases /Microbes and Infectious Diseases

Nehal El Koofy, Mona Mohsen El Attar, Marwa M. Zein, Reham Mohamed Kamel, Yasmin Mohamed Ramadan, Hesham Abdelkarim Mohamed, Hanan M. Osman

Abstract

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic exposed healthcare providers to a psychological burden, especially those on the front lines. Objective: This study aimed to high light the risk factors contributed to psychological pain among healthcare providers (HCP) during the COVID -19 pandemic in Egypt. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 430 pediatric HCP (from March 2021 to January 2022) wh...

Keywords

Cross-sectional study

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Depression (economics)

Anxiety

Health care

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak

Pandemic

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)

Medicine

Psychiatry

Family medicine

Psychology

Virology

Political science

Disease

Infectious disease (medical specialty)

Internal medicine

Pathology

Outbreak

Law

Economics

Macroeconomics

2024

Article

Open Access

Institution

Pediatrics department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

2-Y Citation Average

0.484

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21608/mid.2024.290741.1957

Language

en

Country

Egypt