Prevalence of anxiety towards COVID-19 and its associated factors among healthcare workers in a Hospital of Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The World Health Organization declared the outbreak of COVID-19 as a pandemic on 11 March 2020. Healthcare workers are directly involved in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and care of patients with COVID-19.This study aims to assess the prevalence of anxiety and its associated factors towards the COVID-19 outbreak among healthcare workers in a Hospital of Ethiopia.

Methods

A Hospital-based survey study was conducted on a total of 305 Healthcare workers in a Hospital of Ethiopia. Bivariable and multivariable logistic regression were used to analyze data between independent variables with anxiety. Variables with a p-value of <0.2 were transformed into multivariate analysis. Crude and adjusted odds ratios with 95% CI, p-values of <0.05 were used to show the str

SUBMITTER: Kibret S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7723255 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature