Anxiety and Burnout in Anesthetists and Intensive Care Unit Nurses During Covid-19 Pandemic

Overview

The aim is to measure anxiety level and burnout frequency of healthcare workers including attending physicians, residents and nurses working at intensive care unit during COVID-19 pandemic. The study protocol had consisted of three parts. The first part was related to demographic details including age, sex, marital status, working position, past medical history. The second part of the survey was validated Turkish form of Beck anxiety inventory (BAI) It has 21 questions. Every question is a somatic symptom of anxiety. Participants scored them regarding how this symptom bothered them past week. Items have four possible answers: not at all (0 point), mildly (1 point), moderate (2 point), severe (3 point). Total anxiety score can be between 0 and 63. Participants were categorized as no or mild anxiety if the total beck anxiety score was between 0-16, and moderate to severe anxiety if it was more than 16 The last part of the survey was validated Turkish form of Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) to evaluate components of BOS

Our institution's ICU has served 31 beds for COVID-19 and 21 beds for other patients during pandemic with 27 attending physicians and 35 residents. Number of night shifts for attending physicians and residents were 3 and 8 per month, respectively. The aim of the study was to evaluate the by measuring anxiety level and burnout frequency of HCWs including attending physicians, residents and nurses in our institution's ICU.

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