Health Professionals‘ Psychological Distress and Associated Factors in the Post-Pandemic period of COVID-19 at Eka Kotebe General Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Abstract

Humanity has battled a variety of pandemics. The Plague, Cholera, and Influenza are the most well-known of these pandemics and have caused the greatest number of fatalities. Now adays COVID-19 Is a global threat affecting all aspects of human life. Globally, the Pandemic affected how individuals‘ function, reorganizing professional work, requiring people to adjust to the constraints in place and limiting their ability to contact their loved once. Studies on this new pandemic have discovered that psychological distress in healthcare workers, such as anxiety, sadness, somatic discomfort, and burnout were experienced during the outbreak of the disease. However, the majority of studies have been done during the outbreak phase, while little has been done on job stress and psychological adaptability in healthcare personnel during the post-pandemic period. Objective: To assess Health Professionals‘ Psychological Distress and Associated Factors in the Post Pandemic period of COVID-19 at Eka Kotebe General Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2023.