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    Perceived Stress and Coping Styles among Healthcare Workers during the time of COVID-19, Arerti Town, North Shoa Zone
    (Addis Ababa University, 2021-09) Resom Tsegaye; Assefa Berihun
    Coronavirus disease-2019 has been a global concern for the past one and half year and still is expected to continue for the coming years. Health professionals, while compared with the general public are influenced by it and have a higher risk of acquiring the disease. It has been witnessed that there were interventions tried by stakeholders to alleviate its consequence on health professionals but the most important one is to understand how individuals are coping with the stress and working to improve coping outcome. So, the aim of this study is to assess the level of perceived stress and coping styles used to overcome the stress among health workers during COVID-19 in Arerti town health facilities. The study used cross-sectional survey design. Questionnaire was collected from all 216 health workers who were at their work during data collection time by using a Brief COPE and Perceived Stress scale-10. Analysis of the data includes descriptive statistics, bivariate and multivariable logistic regression. The result showed that that the mean age was 28.6 ± 5.09 SD, of them 102 (47.2%) are females. The prevalence of perceived stress related to COVID-19 among health workers was 45.8% while the widely used coping styles were religious coping and acceptance. Regression analysis showed factors such as gender, work experience, humor, venting, behavioral disengagement and self-blame were having association with perceived stress. Based on this result the researcher can conclude that being female and having longer years of work experience will make individuals more likely develop higher level of stress. In addition to that, inclination to use more of humor, venting, behavioral disengagement, and self-blame coping will likely make one experience high level of stress among health workers in Arerti town health facilities. Key words: COVID-19, Health workers, coping Styles, Perceived Stress