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Anxiety and Fear Caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic During the Intervention of Emergency Surgical Cases in Surgical Physi...
ISSN: 2687 - 4555
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Anxiety and Fear Caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic During the Intervention of Emergency Surgical Cases in Surgical Physi...
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Abstract
Aim: We aimed to determine the anxiety and fear of surgical physicians regarding COVID-19, their fears in emergency surgical cases and their views on the precautions taken. Material and Methods: Anxiety and fear scales adapted to Turkish and a questionnaire with 20 questions prepared by ourselves were used. Online questionnaires were applied to 275 physicians using the Google forms application. Mann-Whitney U, Chi-square, Kruskal Wallis, linear and binary logistic regression tests were applied. Results: A significant difference was found in total anxiety and fear score between gender, additional personal protective equipment (PPE) use or not, COVID-19 effect in medical decisions or not and having total anxiety and total fear or not. Surgeons who thought they were infected with COVID-19 infection from the hospital had higher fear score means than those who did not. Surgeons with two children had higher anxiety scores In binary logistic...
