Background:The 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is highly contagious and can spread a pandemic, so it is related to serious health issues and major public concerns, and is considered by the medical community to be the greatest concern because it is the greatest risk of infection.Objective: To identify and assess the psychological effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare professionals in Khartoum state hospitals 2021.
Background: The 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is highly contagious and can spread a pandemic, so it is related to serious health issues and major public concerns, and is considered by the medical community to be the greatest concern because it is the greatest risk of infection .Objective: To identify and assess the psychological effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on healthcare professionals in Khartoum state hospitals 2021.Materials and Methods: Generalized anxiety scale (GAD-7), Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10) and Work-family balance measure scale were used to assess the Psychological impact of Doctors and nurses working in four big hospitals in Sudan ,by an online questionnaire, analyzed by the statistical package for social science (SPSS) during February.Results: Most of the participants had minimal to mild anxiety according to GAD-7 score, 121 (35.2%) and 103 (29.9%) respectively.Using PSS-10 the cutoff point was determined as 19 as the mean for total score was 19.2 ± 6.2, accordingly more than half had high levels of stress (scored 19 and above) 189 (54.9%). For the Work-Family Balance scale, 10 was regarded as the cutoff point. There was a significant association between specialty and stress level p-value 0.032. No significant correlations were found between age and stress level, neither between age and anxiety level (r − .100, p-value .064 and r = − .022, p-value .683 respectively).Conclusion: More than half of healthcare professionals (54.9%) showed high levels of stress.Most of the healthcare professionals had poor work-family balance (60.2%).
Background: Sepsis is life-threatening and frequently a final common pathway to death for many infectious diseases worldwide and may lead to death if left untreated. The objective is to assess the scientific medical knowledge upon sepsis among House officers and Medical officers in terms of diagnosis and management.Method: An observational cross sectional Hospital-based study was conducted through self-administered retrospective questionnaires based on the objective of the study. We enrolled 155 participants through Convenience sampling. The questionnaire contains parts of validated Sepsis criteria in terms of diagnosis and management. Analysis was done by using SPSS version 20. Data are presenter as frequencies and percentages using figures and tables. P value less than 0.05 considered significant Mann Whitney U test use to compare level of knowledge adherence between trained participants and non-trained participants.Results: The mean knowledge score about sepsis diagnosis was 2.6 out of 10 (SD= 1.8), and about sepsis management was 2.8 out of 8 (SD=1.8) the mean overall score was 5.5 out of 18.No significant difference found between participants who were trained upon diagnosis and management of sepsis and those who were not.Conclusion: Study findings illustrated that the capacity to perceive and manage sepsis among House Officers and Medical Officers doctors is poor and there are dangerous gaps in their investigation and management of such septic patients.
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