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The fear of COVID-19 outbreak among health care professionals in Gaza Strip, Palestine.
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- Mental health of general practitioners and family medicine specialists 2 years into the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in public health · 2025Observational
- Committed care in the shadow of fear: The experiences of emergency medical services staff encountering with COVID-19 patients.Journal of education and health promotion · 2025Article
- Quality of life among residents of Gaza, Palestine: the predictive role of mental distress, fear of COVID-19, and social support.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- The road to recovery: impact of COVID-19 on healthcare utilization in South Korea in 2016-2022 using an interrupted time-series analysis.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2023Article
- Customers' Perception Towards Accountability of Diagnostic Centres: Evidence from India.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2023Article
- Psychometric properties of the Persian version of Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-21 Items (DASS-21) in a sample of health professionals: a cross-sectional study.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- Prevalence of physical activity using validated tools among adults during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Eastern Mediterranean region: A systematic review and meta-analysis.SAGE open medicine · 2022Review
- COVID-19 infection prevention and control procedures and institutional trust: Perceptions of Palestinian healthcare workers.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Gaza midwives' experiences in providing maternity care during COVID-19.European journal of midwifery · 2022Article
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
introductionThe emergence of the COVID-19 and its consequences has led to fears, worries, and anxiety among individuals, particularly among healthcare professionals. The present study aimed to assess the fear of COVID-19 among different healthcare professionals in the Gaza Strip, Palestine.
methodsA cross-sectional, snowball sampling technique and an online questionnaire were employed among healthcare professionals. A total of 300 participants completed the questionnaire. The validated fear of COVID-19 Scale Arabic version was used. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS version 22.
resultsThe sample fear mean score was 17.53 ± 5.78; more than half of the study participants (54.3%) consider it as low levels of fear and 45.7% of the participants consider it as high levels of fear. Statistically significant differences were found between males and females, and different healthcare professional's disciplines. Females have a higher mean score compared to males. The highest fear mean scores were found among Lab-Technicians (20.19 ± 7.42), followed by X-ray-Technicians (17.95 ± 3.96), Nurses (17.1 ± 5.55), and Physicians (16.25 ± 4.66).
conclusionThe fear of COVID-19 was high among female healthcare professionals compared to males, as well as, among Lab-Technicians compared to Physicians and Nurses. There is a need to establish a strategy to continues measuring the psychological effect of COVID-19 among healthcare professionals especially females.
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