Occupational stress assessment of health care workers (HCWs) facing COVID-19 patients in Kerman province hospitals in Iran

The impact of work-related stress on the cognition domain of executive functioning of health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

“…Workload as the most important risk factor is also consistent with the study done by Arafa et al ( 2021 ) involving health care workers on the frontlines in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Zare et al ( 2021 ) in their study involving Iranian HCWs during the pandemic attained results showing that high workload was a major contributing factor to the stress level during COVID-19. Other factors examined were lack of adequate support for senior managers, their lack of preparedness to respond to emergency conditions and lack of access to PPE.…”

PTSD Among Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Study Raises Concern for Non-medical Staff in Low-Risk Areas

“…A study has found that even in areas where the epidemic was not so severe, the risk of infection for HCWs is still higher than that of general population ( 12 ). Some research focused on low-risk epidemic areas has found that the mental problems of post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), depression and anxiety were also found both in high-risk and low-risk HCWs ( 13 , 14 ).…”

A Literature Review: The Mental Problem Caused by Nurses’ Work Stress under the Impact of COVID-19

“…During this pandemic period, working in the hospital is exceedingly stressful for those health care workers. Nurses who work on the frontline are facing a higher risk of infection and overcoming their fear of Covid-19 [15]. Said and El-Shafei analyzed that fear as a psychological factor of exposure to infection might take a large proportion of the source of stress among those nurses [16].…”

“…Many kinds of research have reported that the fear and nervousness of Covid-19 is a common term among all nurses, in addition, the most general fear of nurses is transmission and the result of inflicting it on their patients [16][17][18][19]. Except for the infection among nurses themselves, they also suffer from emotional distress and fear at the worry of infecting others and their family members [9,10,[15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. In Ahn and other experimenters' study, they found that married female nurses have a higher score of fear compared with single female nurses, and a probable reason for this high score of fear, anxiety, and depression among married nurses might be the worry and fear of carrying the virus and transferring it to the families [20].…”