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Psychological Distress among Iranian Health-Care Providers Exposed to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A Qualitative Study
Maryam Azizi
Aja University of Medical Sciences
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ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7912-5313
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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 sub-categories: 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
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Psychological Distress among Iranian Health-Care Providers Exposed to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A Qualitative Study
Maryam Azizi
Aja University of Medical Sciences
Corresponding Author
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7912-5313
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CURRENT STATUS: Published
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Posted 02 Sep, 2020
Published
On 07 Oct, 2020
No community comments so far
Editorial decision: Accept
On 21 Sep, 2020
Review #2 received
Received 10 Sep, 2020
Reviewer #2 agreed
On 04 Sep, 2020
Reviewers invited
Invitations sent on 02 Sep, 2020
Reviewer #1 agreed
On 02 Sep, 2020
Review #1 received
Received 02 Sep, 2020
Editor assigned
On 31 Aug, 2020
Submission checks complete
On 30 Aug, 2020
Editor invited
On 30 Aug, 2020
No comments provided
Editorial decision: Major revision
On 27 Jul, 2020
Review #2 received
Received 24 Jul, 2020
Reviewer #2 agreed
On 16 Jul, 2020
Review #1 received
Received 28 Jun, 2020
Reviewers invited
Invitations sent on 16 Jun, 2020
Reviewer #1 agreed
On 16 Jun, 2020
Editor assigned
On 08 Jun, 2020
Submission checks complete
On 07 Jun, 2020
Editor invited
On 07 Jun, 2020
First submitted
On 18 May, 2020
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PDF Downloads: ...
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This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License. Read Full License
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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 sub-categories: 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.
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