Predictive factors affecting stress among nurses providing care at COVID‐19 isolation hospitals at Egypt

Hendy, Abdelaziz; Abozeid, Ahmed; Sallam, Gehan; Abboud Abdel Fattah, Hadya; Ahmed Abdelkader Reshia, Fadia

AIMS: To examine predictive factors affecting stress among nurses providing care at COVID‐19 Isolation Hospitals at Egypt. METHODS: A cross‐sectional study conducted in five Isolation governmental hospitals for COVID‐19. 374 nurses included at the study. Characteristic forms, factors affecting nurses’ stress and Nursing Stress Scale (NSS) were used to collect data. RESULTS: (52.1%) of studied nurses had moderate level of total nursing stress scale. Also, (26.2%) of them had severe level, while (13.4% & 8.3%) of them had mild and normal level, respectively. Mean SD score of studied nurses regarding to total nursing stress scale was 99.47 ± 10.671. CONCLUSIONS: Training for COVID‐19, availability of PPE, educational level and attention of hospital administration were negative predictor factors for nurses’ stress, while having children, people showed that COVID‐19 is stigma, fears of infection, workplace, fear of transmission infection for family and nurse to patient ratio were positive predictors.