Abstract

The aim of the paper is to investigate the fear of COVID, COVID anxiety and burnout among health-care professionals. 269 health-care professionals filled the questionnaire which consists of The Fear of COVID-19 Scale, Coronavirus Anxiety Scale, Maslach Burnout Inventory and socio-demographical information form. It is revealed from the study that COVID fear have a strong relationship between COVID anxiety, emotional exhaustion and depersonalisation. Participants who have higher levels of COVID fear have lower levels of Personal accomplishments. Female healthcare workers’ COVID anxiety was higher than in male health-care workers. Losing a close person and being affected by COVID also showed statistically significant differences. Losing a patient, inadequacy in medical equipment and being a victim of violence during pandemic make statistically significant differences especially in depersonalization and emotional exhaustion among health-care workers.

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