Depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation of nurses in the outbreak of COVID-19: the role of demographic variables. (Special issue on COVID-19.) [Persian]

Ariapooran, S.; Amirimanesh, M.

Background and Aim: Nurses experience many psychological problems during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak. This study aims to investigate the prevalence of depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation in nurses during the COVID-19 outbreak, and compare these problems in nurses based on gender, educational level, marital status and department. Methods & Materials: This is a descriptive study conducted on 312 nurses working in hospitals in Malayer, Iran. who were selected using census method. They completed the Beck Depression Inventory, Beck Anxiety Inventory, and Scale for Suicidal Ideation questionnaire. Descriptive statistics and Multivariate Analysis of Covariance (MANCOVA) were used to analyze the collected data in SPSS v. 24 software. Ethical Considerations: This study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of Malayer University (Code: IR. MALAYERU. REC.1399.002).