Evaluation of Job Strain of Family Physicians in COVID-19 Pandemic Period- An Example from Turkey

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Evaluation of Job Strain of Family Physicians in COVID-19 Pandemic Period- An Example from Turkey Beray Gelmez TAŞ1   · Gökmen Özceylan2   · Güzin Zeren Öztürk1   · Dilek Toprak3  Accepted: 7 November 2020 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020

Abstract The purpose of this study was to evaluate family physicians’ job strain during the Covid-19 pandemic and determine the effective factors. The study was carried out between 01 May 2020 and 01 June 2020 by applying an online questionnaire to family physicians who worked in primary care in Istanbul and could be reached by telephone application. The survey created by us included socio-demographic information and the Job Strain Scale Short Form. P value was accepted as 0.05, and SPSS 20 package program was used in statistical analysis. 448 Family Physicians participated in the study. Anxiety levels of the participants increased after the pandemic (p