Irish journal of medical science
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Multicenter Study
Stress level assessment among health care workers involved in the management of critically ill COVID-19 patients.
Intensive care health care workers (HCWs) are frontlines of this crisis as they deal with critically ill COVID-19 patients which can potentially affect their mental well-being and causes different levels of stress. ⋯ Stress level was moderate to severe among intensive care HCWs during this pandemic, and many factors were associated with stress emphasizing the importance of psychological support during that unprecedented pandemic.