The psychological impact of COVID-19 pandemic on health care workers in a MERS-CoV endemic country
Journal of Infection and Public Health2020Vol. 13(6), pp. 877–882
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Mohamad‐Hani Temsah, Fahad Alsohime, Nurah Alamro, Ayman Al‐Eyadhy, Khalid Alhasan, Amr Jamal, Ibrahim AlMaglouth, Fadi Aljamaan, Maha Al Amri, Mazin Barry, Sarah Alsubaie, Ali M. Somily
Abstract
Pandemic and epidemic infectious diseases such as COVID-19 or MERS-CoV impose a significant level of anxiety and stress on healthcare workers who are caring of infected patients, with their main concern being the risk of transmitting the infection to their families or to acquire it themselves. Therefore, optimizing the compliance of healthcare workers with the proper infection prevention and control measures is paramount during the infectious disease outbreak, to ensure their safety, to decrease the likelihood of getting infected or transmitting the infection to others, and consequently to alleviate their psychological stress and anxiety.
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