Title: Screening nurses’ anxiety during covid-19 pandemic in Tertiary Hospital, Bandung-Indonesia
Abstract:
The increasing number of patients with COVID-19 every day contribute to all aspects include psychology impact. One of psychology impacts was anxiety on society, including nurses. Despite of chain prevention has been conducted strictly and any treatment such vaccine still being developed by scientist, the potential for exposure to COVID-19 was still quite high, even causing clusters in few buildings in the hospital. The aim of the study was to describe of nurses’ anxiety screening during COVID-19 Pandemic in Tertiary Hospital, Bandung-Indonesia. This research design was descriptive study with the number of samples were 301 nurses. The sampling technique was probability sampling with cluster random sampling. The study was conducted on March 2021 with the instrument using the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale (CAS). The instrument was adopted by Lee, S.A (2020) and it was available in Bahasa version (cross-cultural adaptation) with result of Content Validity Index (CVI) Aiken’s V 1.00, (r count > 0,3), and Alpha Cronbach 0,702 (> 0.6). The result of study found 75.08% were women, age 26-45 years old (66.78%), education level were 62.13% diploma, 14 (4.6%) categorized with dysfunctional anxiety, the 14 respondents were distributed in outpatient wards, internal wards, intensive unit, pediatric wards, surgical central wards, and infection wards. Conclusion: As civilized human being, health care professionals especially nurses even as frontliner also can experience the anxiety. Stake holder engagement needed to help nurses with proper approach. Next future research can also explore the comparison anxiety level with resiliency post COVID-19 Pandemic.
