PROFESSIONAL HEALTH JOURNAL
Vol 4 No 2sp (2023): Special Issue June

mental health status of nurses during the covid-19 pandemic

Yovina Nuriati farel jovian alfarizki (Stikes Maharani Malang)



Article Info

Publish Date
16 Jun 2023

Abstract

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a new disease caused by the SARS Cov 2 virus, defined by WHO as an epidemic or pandemic. This causes the high number of confirmed cases of COVID-19, which can cause mental health problems. Mental health status that can be caused by nurses are depression, anxiety, stress, insomnia, somatic symptoms, PTSD, ASD, and suicidal ideation. The type of research used is literature review, with the results showing that from 12 journals a description of the status that affects mental health in nurses during the Covid-19 pandemic, namely mental health status depression (28.6%), anxiety (25.7%), stress (20%), insomnia ( 8.5%), somatic symptoms (5.7%), PTSD (5.7), ASD (2.9%), and having suicidal ideation (2.9%). Therefore, it is recommended that nurses be able to handle the factors that trigger the emergence of mental health disorders, one of which is by adapting to increasing COVID-19 care, hospital policies and support are also very necessary to minimize the occurrence of mental health disorders experienced by nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic. this. Keywords : mental health, nurses, and COVID-19

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Journal Info

Abbrev

PHJ

Publisher

Subject

Medicine & Pharmacology Nursing

Description

Professional health journal is an open access journal with a wide range (Scope) of fields of nursing including basic research in nursing, management nursing, emergencies, and critical nursing, medical-surgical nursing, mental health nursing, maternity nursing, maternity nursing, child nursing, ...