Mental and Behavioral Health

Biography

Biography: Mustafa Afifi

Abstract

Few articles investigated the COVID-19 impact on Health Care Workers’ mental health in UAE, and mainly in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. This research focuses on investigating the effect of COVID-19 on workers' mental health in one of Sharjah medical Centers and comparing it with the impact of the pandemic on university students. The sample was captured from one of Sharjah Medical Centres. Fifty healthcare workers were selected consisting of nurses, physicians with different specialties, managers with different positions, and other workers. Besides, 150 students were selected from Jumeira University from different colleges. The tools used were the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ9) which is a self-administrative questionnaire that consists of 9 questions with four Likert scales that measures depression symptoms. (Kroenke K, 2001). The second was General Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7) that considered seven items scale for measuring anxiety rated by four points Likert Scale. (Spitzer RL, 2006). The Third questionnaire is the Primary Care Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Screen (PC-PTSD-5), which is a five items questionnaire that is intended to determine the individual who possibly suffering from PSTD. The answers for these questions containing two possible options as “Yes” or “No”. (Prins A, 2003). Lastly, the fourth questionnaire is the Perceived Stress Scale which is considered the classic measuring stress tool. It helps in recognizing how different conditions impact people’s feelings of stress, it is comprised of ten items that are used to measure the stress level. The ten items scored by using five points Likert Scale each point refers to a different score. (Cohen, 1993). In our results we will display the correlation between these variables each other and the demographic factors as age, sex, profession, etc. We will also compare between students and health care workers mental health profile during the pandemic.