Investigation of Fear of Covid, Coronavirus Anxiety and Burn-Out Among Health-Care Professionals
Abstract
The aim of the paper is to investigate the fear of COVID, COVID anxiety and burnout among health-care professionals. 269 health-care professionals filled the questionnaire which consists of The Fear of COVID-19 Scale, Coronavirus Anxiety Scale, Maslach Burnout Inventory and socio-demographical information form. It is revealed from the study that COVID fear have a strong relationship between COVID anxiety, emotional exhaustion and depersonalisation. Participants who have higher levels of COVID fear have lower levels of Personal accomplishments. Female healthcare workers’ COVID anxiety found higher than male health-care workers. Losing a close one and also caught COVID also showed statistically significant differences. Losing a patient, inadequacy in medical equipment and being a victim of violence during pandemic make statistically significant differences especially in depersonalisation and emotional exhaustion among health-care workers.
DOI: 10.5671/ca.47.4.7
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