Fear of COVID-19, Nurse’s Stress, and Health Care Behaviors toward Elderly People

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Assistant Professor of Community health nursing (Geriatic), Faculty of Nursing, Fayoum University, Egypt

2 Lecturer of Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, 6 of October University, Egypt.

3 Assistant Professor of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Minia University, Egypt.

4 Gerontological nursing, faculty of nursing, Minia university

Abstract

Abstract: Elderly people are the most vulnerable group for high morbidity and mortality from Covid-19 and need high effort to meet their health needs. As nurses are at the front of fighting this pandemic in all geriatric settings, they have faced stress and fear of corona which can affect the provided elderly care. Therefore, this study aimed to explore nurses' fear of Covid-19 and stress, and their relations to health care behaviors towards elderly people. Research design: A cross-sectional research design was conducted on 185 nurses from ten governorates of Egypt, who completed an online questionnaire distributed through Google forms from September 2020 to February 2021. Tools: Demographic characteristics, added to, three research instruments were used: (1) The Expanded Nursing Stress Scale (ENSS), (2) The Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S), and (3) The Caring Behaviors Inventory (CBI). Results indicated that 41.0 % of the studied nurses had a mild level of fear of COVID-19. Besides, there was a significantly positive association between nurses' Fear of COVID-19 and stress (r=.77, p < /p>

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NILES journal for Geriatric and Gerontology
Volume 5, Issue 1
January 2022
Pages 64-81

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