Social and Psychological Stress of Medical Isolation Hospital Workers during the Crisis of COVID-19 Epidemic: A Field Study

Document Type : Empirical Articles

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1 department mental health faculty of education at Ain shams unvercity

2 department of sociology ,faculty of arts, helwan university, helwan, Egypt

3 Department of Social work and Community Development

4 fields of social work , social work , helwan university.

5 Department of Epidemiology and Surveillance, Ministry of Health and Population, Egypt

6 Egypt Ministry of Health and Population

7 Fields of social work department Faculty of social work Helwan university Egypt

Abstract

the study aimed to determine the type of social and psychological stress that workers in medical isolation hospital were exposed to during the novel crisis of the coronavirus (COVID-19) the study utilized the social survey method. The study sample consisted of(164) workers in some isolation hospitals affiliated with the ministry of health in the governorates of (Menoufia- Assuit –Fouaym-Alexandria).in the collecting the required data, the study relied on a questionnaire entitled “social and psychological stress that workers in medical isolation hospitals were exposed to during the emerging crisis of the coronavirus (COVID-19)", The study concluded than the most important social stress faced by workers were the need of 82.40% of the persons of the sample to be appreciated by the others, and 78.42% of them felt that they are neglecting their families, and 76.93% of the persons of the sample were upset by the inability of their families to meet their needs during their work.

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