Covid-19’lu Hastalara Tedavi Ve Bakım Veren Sağlık Çalışanlarının Görüşlerinin Belirlenmesi

Abstract

Healthcare professionals have a major role to play in controlling pandemic such as Covid-19 that have spread all over the world. In this study, we aimed to determine the views of healthcare professionals providing treatment and care to Covid-19 patients. In addition, it was decided by the Süleyman Demirel University Faculty of Medicine Clinical Research Ethics Committee, with the decision dated 174 and numbered 2020.07.23, it was decided to comply with ethical scientific standards. The descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out between April – May 2020 with a total of 407 healthcare workers, 42.0% were nurses, 30.7% doctors and 27.3% other health workers. The universe of the study consists of 578 healthcare workers. The Healthcare professionals' views were evaluated with a questionnaire consisting of Personal Information Form, Depression Anxiety Stress Scale short form and questions determining healthcare professionals' thoughts before and after pandemics. It was found that 81.1% of the healthcare professionals had friends before the Covid-19 pandemic and 73.5% did not receive psychological support. There is a statistical significance between the healthcare professionals participating in the study and their psychological support status before the Covid-19 pandemic, and the scale total score and sub-dimensions (p=0.000). Some of the participants stated that they found themselves socially active (n=281), physical (n=249) and psychological (n=200) before the Covid-19 pandemic, but this situation was adversely affected after the Covid-19 pandemic. It was observed that the majority of healthcare professionals did not have an expected negative attitude towards pandemic and cases in the early period. Providing psychological support trainings to all healthcare professionals in the period after the Covid-19 pandemic can yield important results. (English) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]