Prevalence of anxiety towards COVID-19 and its associated factors among healthcare workers in a Hospital of Ethiopia

Simegnew Kibret, Diriba Teshome, Efrem Fenta, Metages Hunie and Tadese Tamire

PLOS ONE, 2020, vol. 15, issue 12, 1-10

Abstract: Background: The World Health Organization declared the outbreak of COVID-19 as a pandemic on 11 March 2020. Healthcare workers are directly involved in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and care of patients with COVID-19.This study aims to assess the prevalence of anxiety and its associated factors towards the COVID-19 outbreak among healthcare workers in a Hospital of Ethiopia. Methods: A Hospital-based survey study was conducted on a total of 305 Healthcare workers in a Hospital of Ethiopia. Bivariable and multivariable logistic regression were used to analyze data between independent variables with anxiety. Variables with a p-value of

Date: 2020
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