Work Related Stress Experienced by Midwives Caring for Expectant Mothers with Comfirmed COVID-19 During Child Birth at Eka Kotebe General Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2021: A Qualitative Study.
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2021-05
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Addis Ababa University
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Background: CIVID-19 is a new disease that infects a large number of people, killing a ratio of whom every day in the world. The nature of the health institution and healthcare system are considered as a high risk and intensive work area for work related stress. But still there is limited data about work related stress of midwives especially during COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia.
Objective: To explore the work-related stress experienced by midwives caring for expectant mothers with COVID-19 during child birth at Eka Kotebe General Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Method: This study was performed by descriptive phenomenological research design.11 midwives were purposively selected who gave care for labouring mothers confirmed with COVID-19, at Eka Kotebe General Hospital, from 08 February to 08March 2021, with in depth interview. The analysis was conducted with thematic analysis and ATLAS. ti 8 qualitative software was used to support the analysis.
Results: The results of this study were summarized in to three major themes. Firstly,psychological feeling which consisting of negative and positive feelings ofrespondents to wards accepting the anti-epidemic tasks. Secondly, work related stressors which included effects of the epidemic, administrative gaps, nature of the epidemic and its concerns, work load, nature of work, and lack of needs were the main causes of for work related stress from this study result. Finally, coping strategies which contained distraction, expression of feelings, normalization and refusal to dwell on the experiences.
Conclusion: This study showed that the midwives experienced a variety of workrelated stressors during care of child birth for pregnant mothers with COVID-19.Through proper planning by authorities, it is possible to manage possible causes of work-related stress for midwives and improve their mental health status.
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COVID-19, Work related stress, Midwives, Child birth, Eka Kotebe, Qualitative.