Saima Faraz*

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Latifa Women and Children Hospital, Dubai Medical College, United Arab Emirates

*Corresponding Author: Saima Faraz, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Latifa Women and Children Hospital, Dubai Medical College, United Arab Emirates.

Received: October 10, 2023; Published: November 10, 2023

Abstract

Introduction: The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is an emergent viral infection causing a widely spread pandemic, named as Coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The COVID-19 pandemic prompted fears of falling sick, severe complications, helplessness due to the contagious nature of the disease, very limited treatment modalities, stigma and death. An urgent and comprehensive understanding of the mental health status of the people who were infected with COVID-19 working as healthcare professionals is needed both from medical and non-medical teams such as administrative staff. Our investigation was designed to survey the psychological impact of COVID-19 on confirmed positive healthcare workers of a selected government hospital, Dubai, UAE.

Methods: In November 2021, we conducted an online-based survey, using a purposive sample technique. The surveys collected data about aspects of participant sociodemographic, psychological impact, and mental health status. We assessed the psychological impact and mental health status using the Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R), and the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-21).

Results: Our survey recruited 117 respondents of the both medical and non-medical grades. The average score of the participants on the impact of event scale (IES-R) questionnaire was 19.333 ± 18.31. More than half of the participants (67.5%) had normal scores on the IES-R, 10.3 % had scores in the mild range, 3.41% in the moderate range and 18.8% classified as severe. On the DASS, 86.3% had normal scores on the stress subscale, 58.1% on the anxiety subscale, and 82.9% on the depression subscale. Severe symptoms of stress were experienced by 4.3%, which is more or less similar to the 5.6% who experienced severe symptoms of depression and 7.9% who experienced severe symptoms of anxiety.

Conclusion: Throughout the different waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in UAE, the results showed that nearly one-fourth of the sampled population experienced moderate to severe psychological impact as a result of working in a tense in patient setting with disease ranging from depression to anxiety.

Keywords: Coronavirus; IES; Psychological Impact; Pandemic; Depression; Anxiety; Stress

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Copyright: © 2023 Saima Faraz. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.