Epidemiological features, coping strategies for infection and the extent of reinfection with COVID-19 virus among nurses working in Tanta University hospitals.

Document Type : Review Article

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1 community health nursing - faculty of nursing-tanta university

2 Public Health and Community Medicine department, Faculty of Medicine , Tanta University

3 Lecturers of Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Tanta University.

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Background: Today, Coronavirus diseases 2019 impose an important occupational risk to health care workers(HWs). Until now, globally several thousand of HWs especially nurses have been infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus. The aim of the study: to identify the epidemiological features, coping strategies for infection and investigate the extent of reinfection with COVID- 19 virus among nurses working in Tanta University hospitals. Subjects and Method: In this study, a descriptive cross-sectional research design was used and it was carried out in Tanta University hospitals, El-Gharbeya Governorate. Tools of data collection: - A structured questionnaire consisted of two tools for data collection: tool one; included data bout socio demographic, work and epidemiological features of COVID-19 among the affected nurses and tool two included coping strategies for infection. Results: there were statistically significant relations between age, sex, residence, income, department type, chronic diseases presence and experience years among the studied nurses and occurrence of COVID-19 reinfection where P

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International Egyptian Journal of Nursing Sciences and Research

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 02 January 2022

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