Perspectives and Experiences among Health Staff Work Field Professionals Recovered from COVID-19: Qualitative Study | ||
| Assiut Scientific Nursing Journal | ||
| Article 4, Volume 10, Issue 32, September 2022, Pages 30-37 PDF (900.61 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Research | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/asnj.2022.154733.1414 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Ehsan Ahmed Yahia* 1; Ola Ibrahim Abdo Elmetwaly1; Shimaa Abdalaleem Abdalgeleel2 | ||
| 1Lecturer of Medical Surgical Nursing Faculty of Nursing, Cairo University, Egypt | ||
| 2Assistant Professor of Cancer Epidemiology & Biostatistics National Cancer Institute, Cairo University, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: COVID-19 had become one of the major health crises, as it threatened the lives of people of all nations, continents, races, and socioeconomic groups. Uncontrolled increases in COVID-19 cases necessitate urgent responses and require sometimes quarantine of the entire communities, Aim: This study aimed to explore the perspectives and experiences among Health staff work field professionals recovered from COVID 19. Methods: A Qualitative descriptive phenomenological research design is adopted on a purposive sample of 8 adult health work field survivors recovered from COVID 19. A face-to-face audio-recording interviews, using structured, semistructured and open-ended questionnaire, were utilized to collect the data pertinent to the study. Results: Participants' ages range from 23 to 37 years old. Four main themes and seven related subthemes reflected and shaped the participants' perspectives and experiences which are their attitudes toward COVID 19, COVID-19 similar/unsimilar symptoms experienced, COVID-19: the generator of fear and worries, and lastly the experience of isolation. The seven related subthemes are negligence adhering COVID-19 preventive precautions, pay attention to the news, infection concealing with COVID-19: reasons and rationale, the isolation decision and challenge for quarantine, provoked emotion, realization of the value and meaning of things and home isolation as survival assisting practices. Conclusions: The findings of this study highlighted the perspectives and experiences among health staff work field professionals recovered from COVID 19. Recommendations: Further qualitative and quantitative studies are recommended. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Experiences; Health field professionals; Perspectives; Qualitative research; Recovered Covid 19 | ||
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