Perceived Stress, Anxiety and Depression and its Associated Factors During COVID-19 Pandemic among Healthcare Workers in COVID-19 Health Facilities in Mogadishu Somalia

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (abbreviated “COVID-19”) is an emerging respiratory disease that is caused by a novel coronavirus and was first detected in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. The rapid spread of the disease created challenges for healthcare systems and forced healthcare workers to grapple with clinical and nonclinical stressors, including shortages of personal protective equipment, mortality and morbidity associated with COVID-19, fear of bringing the virus home to family members, and the reality of losing colleagues to the disease. Objective: This study was cried out to find-out the perceived anxiety, depression, stress as well as their associated factors among healthcare workers in COVID-19 health facilities in Mogadishu Somalia. Methods: The study was cross-sectional, descriptive analysis involving all healthcare workers in COVID-19 health facilities in Mogadishu Somalia namely Demartino hospital, Benadir hospital and Dr Summait hospital. The calculated sample size was 168 using slovin formula since the target population was known from the staff registration book, candidates were selected through systematic random sampling from each hospital in accordance with their proportion in the total population. Results: Anxiety was perceived mostly among respondents since only 30.7% were in normal level however only 10.7% had sever anxiety while stress was perceived the least since only 84.8% of participants were normal. Female participants were much more likely to have anxiety and stress, working department was also related with level of perceived anxiety, depression or stress; participants working at ICU and emergency were the most to have anxiety or stress compared to others. Conclusion: Perceived anxiety was the highest while only 1.1% of respondents had severe stress. Female gender as well as working departments was signifactly associated with the level of Anxiety and stress while average income, motivation and living condition was associated with depression.