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. 2020 Jul:87:144-146.
doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2020.05.010. Epub 2020 May 5.

At the height of the storm: Healthcare staff's health conditions and job satisfaction and their associated predictors during the epidemic peak of COVID-19

Stephen X Zhang  1 , Jing Liu  2 , Asghar Afshar Jahanshahi  3 , Khaled Nawaser  4 , Ali Yousefi  5 , Jizhen Li  6 , Shuhua Sun  7
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At the height of the storm: Healthcare staff's health conditions and job satisfaction and their associated predictors during the epidemic peak of COVID-19

Stephen X Zhang et al. Brain Behav Immun. 2020 Jul.

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Abstract

This study reports the physical health, mental health, anxiety, depression, distress, and job satisfaction of healthcare staff in Iran when the country faced its highest number of total active COVID-19 cases. In a sample of 304 healthcare staff (doctors, nurses, radiologists, technicians, etc.), we found a sizable portion reached the cutoff levels of disorders in anxiety (28.0%), depression (30.6%), and distress (20.1%). Age, gender, education, access to PPE (personal protective equipment), healthcare institutions (public vs. private), and individual status of COVID-19 infection each predicted some but not all the outcome variables of SF-12, PHQ-4, K6, and job satisfaction. The healthcare workers varied greatly in their access to PPE and in their status of COVID-19 infection: negative (69.7%), unsure (28.0%), and positive (2.3%). The predictors were also different from those identified in previous studies of healthcare staff during the COVID-19 crisis in China. This study helps to identify the healthcare staff in need to enable more targeted help as healthcare staff in many countries are facing peaks in their COVID-19 cases.

Keywords: 2019-nCoV; Coronavirus; Covid-19 infection; Epidemic peak; Healthcare workers; PPE; Psychiatric screening; Risk factors.

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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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