Psychological distress among Iranian health-care providers exposed to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a qualitative
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RESEARCH ARTICLE
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Psychological distress among Iranian health-care providers exposed to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a qualitative study Azizeh Alizadeh1, Hamid Reza Khankeh2,3, Mohammad Barati4, Yazdan Ahmadi5, Arash Hadian6 and Maryam Azizi5*
Abstract Background: Novel corona virus, named COVID-19, has spread rapidly to other countries like Italy, Iran and South Korea and affected all people, especially health-care providers. Therefore, due to the rapid spread of the disease in Iran, the aim of the present study was to explore psychological distress experienced by Iranian health-care providers in the first few weeks of the corona virus outbreak. Methods: The present qualitative study was conducted on 18 Iranian health-care providers exposed to COVID − 19 using a content analysis method. Purposeful sampling was used to select the participants and continued until data saturation was reached. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews and then the qualitative data were analyzed through direct content analysis. Results: By analyzing 236 primary codes, two main categories were extracted from the experiences of health-care providers during corona virus outbreak. The first category included Occupational demands with three subcategories: nature of illness, Organizational demands and social demands. The second category was Supportive resources included personal support and social support. Conclusions: The results of this study found that there were some barriers and challenges to medical personnel exposed to COVID-19 that caused psychological distress. Some of these problems related to the nature of illness, others related to social and organizational demands and some of supportive resources buffer the relationship between occupational demands and psychological distress. Keywords: Psychological distress, Health-care providers, COVID − 19, Iran, Qualitative study
Background In the end of December 2019, a novel corona virus named COVID-19 by World Health Organization (WHO), was reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan for the first time. This virus has spread rapidly to other countries including Italy, Iran and South Korea [1, 2]. * Correspondence: [email protected] 5 Faculty of Nursing, AJA University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR, Iran Full list of author information is available at the end of the article
According to data released by the Ministry of Health of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the first confirmed cases of COVID-19 infections were reported on 19 February 2020 in Qom Province. Later that day, two people who had tested positive had died. In the following days, the disease spread to most of the provinces of Iran. Iranian health care providers are fighting against this lifethreatening virus on the front lines of corona-specific
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