He Study of Mass Panic Resulting from the Social Crisis of Covid-19 and its Effect on the Public Health of the Employees of the Ministry of Health in Tehran (Statistical Study of the Employees of the Ministry of Health, Treatment and Medical Education of the Country)

Abstract

The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic caused problems at various levels. One of its consequences is public health problems at the community level and the impact of stress caused by it. This study intends to investigate the effect of mass panic caused by Covid-19 on the public health of the employees of the Ministry of Health. The present research is a descriptive-analytical study that was conducted in 2019 in Tehran. In this study, 250 employees working in the Ministry of Health participated. The data collection tools were two demographic questionnaires, Goldberg's General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) and The samples completed the questionnaires electronically on the Google Form platform. SPSS version 22 software was used for data analysis. The significance level of the data was 0.05. In total, 250 questionnaires were completed.The average age of the samples was 44.11±23.74 and their average work experience was 16.07±8.66. The findings of this study showed that collective panic caused by covid-19 had a significant effect on the general health component and sub-components of physical symptoms, anxiety and sleep disorder, depression. Height variable, direct relationship with general health; The variable of diploma and post-diploma education. It seams