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Fear of COVID-19 and Job Stress in Nursing Professionals in Lima, Peru

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  • Neal Henry Reyes-Gastañadui
  • María Teresa Cabanillas-Chavez
  • Monica Elisa Meneses-La-Riva
  • Josefina Amanda Suyo-Vega
  • Wilter C. Morales-García
  • Ana da Costa Polonia

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COVID-19 pandemic made the importance of nursing care within the healthcare environment visible. The lack of this human resource is essential to provide direct care to patients in meeting basic needs and specialized care for health recovery. However, the new disease brought a lot of fear and fear of getting sick or dying from COVID-19, causing various human responses or emotional problems. The study's objective was to determine the relationship between fear of COVID-19 and work stress in nursing professionals in hospital institutions in Lima. The sample consisted of 515 nursing professionals working in the various hospital services of health institutions in Lima. The fear of COVID-19 scale (7 items) and Work Stress scale (12 items) were used. It was concluded that the greater the fear of COVID-19, the greater the work stress in nursing professionals, since the results obtained indicated an excellent and positive relationship (0.779) between these variables.

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  • Neal Henry Reyes-Gastañadui & María Teresa Cabanillas-Chavez & Monica Elisa Meneses-La-Riva & Josefina Amanda Suyo-Vega & Wilter C. Morales-García & Ana da Costa Polonia, 2023. "Fear of COVID-19 and Job Stress in Nursing Professionals in Lima, Peru," Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, Richtmann Publishing Ltd, vol. 12, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bjz:ajisjr:2442
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.36941/ajis-2023-0109
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