Fear of COVID-19, Nurse’s Stress, and Health Care Behaviors toward Elderly People | ||||
| NILES journal for Geriatric and Gerontology | ||||
| Article 5, Volume 5, Issue 1, January 2022, Page 64-81 PDF (405.37 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/niles.2021.93023.1057 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
Zainab Alagamy1; Shahira Mohamed Metwaly2; Safaa Mohammed Zaki3; Rokaia F Mohammed  4
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| 1Assistant Professor of Community health nursing (Geriatic), Faculty of Nursing, Fayoum University, Egypt | ||||
| 2Lecturer of Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, 6 of October University, Egypt. | ||||
| 3Assistant Professor of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Minia University, Egypt. | ||||
| 4Gerontological 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> | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| nurses; stress; covid-19 | ||||
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