key: cord-1008158-mkftv8tq authors: Rad, Meysam; Rad, Mehdi; Hefazi Torghabeh, Leila; Fatemi, Nasrin; Maleki, Mohammad Mehdi; Seifi, Zahra title: Increased nurses’ anxiety disorder during the COVID‐19 outbreak date: 2022-04-10 journal: Brain Behav DOI: 10.1002/brb3.2552 sha: 970654a19fd5303007cb73d6d84a698e81430702 doc_id: 1008158 cord_uid: mkftv8tq BACKGROUND: The rapid outbreak of COVID‐19 at the beginning of 2020 in the world has put severe physical and psychological pressure on the medical staff of hospitals involved in the care of patients with COVID‐19 to the point of risk of PTSD. There was. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the prevalence of COVID‐19 and nurses' anxiety disorder. METHODS: This review study was conducted by library method. RESULTS: As is well known and mentioned everywhere in cyberspace, nurses have lost their mental health and become very anxious during the COVID‐19. Serious spread of traumatic psychiatric symptoms in the current situation can lead to damage to the health system. CONCLUSIONS: The need to care for nurses to relieve fatigue for several months and inject hope and motivation into this group should be understood, But due to the economic situation of the country, unfortunately, the fulfillment of the promises has been delayed, which we hope will be fulfilled soon; Although the delay will certainly not prevent nurses from properly caring for patients, but resolving nurses ‘livelihood problems should also be a priority on the authorities’ agenda. workers, and family members of medical staff, children, and students Naeim, 2020; . The rapid outbreak of COVID-19 at the beginning of 2020 in the world put severe physical and psychological pressure on the medical staff of hospitals involved in the care of patients with COVID-19, to the extent that the risk of PTSD increased for this group. The study of "the incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder in the staff of shows that medical staff, including nurses, suffer a lot from posttraumatic stress, and their mental health is endangered . Researchers at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences have studied the issue of "the incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder in nursing staff involved in the care of patients with COVID-19 in Dr. Masih Daneshvari Hospital." In this study, the amount of physical and psychological stress on medical staff has been analyzed using statistical methods. The statistical population included all nurses and paramedics working in Dr. Masih Daneshvari Hospital in Tehran, during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2020. Dr. Masih Daneshvari Hospital, since the beginning of the outbreak of COVID-19 in Iran, has been one of the first and most important centers for hospitalization and treatment of patients with COVID-19 in Tehran Naeim & Rezaeisharif, 2021d; . Findings show that out of 311 hospital staff who participated in the study, 69/3% were nurses, 30/7% were health care workers and their mean age was 36/36 ± 87/7. Most of the sample members were female, married, childless, with a university degree, and a nurse. Note that 86.7 of the participants did not show any symptoms of COVID-19 at the time of the study, and the results of their own and first-degree family members' corona tests were negative. Most of the sample members had severe PTSD symptoms, and there was no significant difference in the severity of PTSD symptoms between participants with a history of COVID-19 and its absence. The mean PTSD score was severe in all members of the group. There was a significant difference between different age groups in the depression subscale. People in the age group of 20 to 30 years had the highest and in the age group of 31 to 40 years had the lowest score of lack of depression. There was a significant difference between individuals with different marital statuses in the subscales of intrusive memories, inability to control emotions, and PTSD Naeim & Rezaeisharif, 2021e; . Married people had the highest scores on intrusive memories, inability to control emotions, and PTSD. There was no significant difference between the two sexes, people with a different number of children, levels of education, and different job positions in the field of PTSD. Based on the findings of the present study, the mean PTSD score was severe in 88% of all study members and moderate in only 12%. But none of the sample members had mild PTSD, which indicates the depth and severity of the psychological impact of the current crisis on the treatment staff. The highest score among the subscales was related to intrusive memories and the lowest was related to interpersonal problems among all members of the sample group. This means that the medical staff involved in the care of COVID-19 patients, among the symptoms of PTSD, were more to have recollections of disturbing memories and thoughts about patients, which can have a serious and long-term negative effect on their mental health and functioning Moghadam et al., 2020; Naeim, 2021a; Rezaei et al., 2021) . But applying the lowest score to interpersonal problems can indicate that in these difficult situations, individuals' solidarity increased and they suffered less damage in interpersonal relationships, and this can be a positive point that occurs in crises. Because there was no significant difference in the incidence of PTSD between staff with a history of COVID-19 and its absence, the first hypothesis of the study included a significant difference in PTSD in hospital staff with or without a history of COVID-19 was rejected. These findings indicate a serious spread of PTSD when dealing with a fatal pandemic because the depth of the tragedy of direct exposure to patients with COVID-19 can be somewhat unknown and therefore stressful and it seems to affect everyone in the same way, and in particular causes frequent recalls of unpleasant events in the mind. Foreign studies also show that people living in China's Hubei province, the main center of the COVID-19 outbreak, showed the highest rate of posttraumatic stress symptoms Rezaeisharif et al., 2021) . The second hypothesis of the present study, including the relationship between demographic variables and PTSD in terms of age and marital status, was confirmed. People had the lowest rate of depression in the third decade of life, but the highest rate of depression in the next decade (fourth decade). This can be due to the spread of excitement in early adulthood. But in the next decade, more involvement in society, especially when facing a crisis, can reduce it. The present study also showed that men and women are equally at risk for PTSD in the face of a deadly disease. But, the relative equality of men and women in the face of stressful conditions in the present study is different from other studies. It could indicate that women in Iran have become more adaptable in recent years due to various problems such as war, earthquakes, and economic crises, and do not necessarily react more severely than men in the face of crises such as epidemics Moghadam et al., 2020; . Mental health is an issue of urgent importance in terms of research into the COVID-19 crisis, and delays in addressing it can lead to adverse consequences. The study showed that hospital staff involved in the treatment of COVID-19 had severe symptoms of PTSD. This issue should be seriously considered for further evaluation of the mental health of the treatment staff of COVID-19 patients Moghadam et al., 2020; Naeim, 2021b; Najafi et al., 2021) . The serious spread of traumatic psychiatric symptoms in the current situation can lead to damage to the health system. While efforts are needed in many areas at present, spending time and money on the mental health of at-risk patients as well as society as a whole is a necessity. 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Data will be available by the corresponding author upon reasonable request. Zahra Seifi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1119-0677