Perceived Stress and Anxiety Levels of Nurses

Personal Information Form:

Socio-demographic characteristics of nurses such as age, gender, educational status, working time in the profession, professional characteristics such as the unit they worked before and after the COVID-19 pandemic, working time and working style, how their family life was affected in the COVID-19 pandemic, and contains information on their greatest concern regarding the pandemic.

Time frame: baseline

The Perceived Stress Scale

It is a five-point Likert-type scale and consists of 14 items. Participants rate each item on a scale ranging from "Never (0)" to "Very often (4)". Seven of the items with positive statements are scored in reverse. As the scores obtained from the scale increase, the perceived stress level of the person increases. PSS-14 scores range from 0 to 56, with 0-35 point range indicating normal stress level, 35-56 point range indicating that the individual is under stress.

Time frame: four weeks

State-Trait Anxiety Inventory

The 4-point Likert-type State Anxiety Inventory, consisting of 20 items in total, measures a person's anxiety at a certain time. According to the severity of the feelings, thoughts or behaviors expressed by the items in the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, it is required to choose one of the options "not at all," "a little," "a lot," and "totally". There are 10 (items 1, 2, 5, 8, 10, 11, 15, 16, 19 and 20) reversed statements in the STAI. While scoring the scale, the reversed statements with a weight of 1 were converted to 4, and those with a weight of 4 were converted to 1. In direct statements, answers with a value of 4 indicate high anxiety. In reversed expressions, answers with a value of 1 indicate high anxiety, and a value of 4 indicates low anxiety. The last value obtained was accepted as the individual's anxiety score. It is reported that the level of anxiety is high for scores above 42 points.

Time frame: four weeks