Predictive factors affecting stress among nurses providing care at COVID-19 isolation hospitals at Egypt
Abstract
Aims: To examine predictive factors affecting stress among nurses providing care at
COVID-19 Isolation Hospitals at Egypt.
Methods: A cross-sectional study conducted in five Isolation governmental hospitals
for COVID-19. 374 nurses included at the study. Characteristic forms, factors affecting
nurses’ stress and Nursing Stress Scale (NSS) were used to collect data.
Results: (52.1%) of studied nurses had moderate level of total nursing stress scale.
Also, (26.2%) of them had severe level, while (13.4% & 8.3%) of them had mild and
normal level, respectively. Mean SD score of studied nurses regarding to total nursing
stress scale was 99.47 ± 10.671.
Conclusions: Training for COVID-19, availability of PPE, educational level and attention
of hospital administration were negative predictor factors for nurses’ stress,
while having children, people showed that COVID-19 is stigma, fears of infection,
workplace, fear of transmission infection for family and nurse to patient ratio were
positive predictors.