ABERA, Dame(PhDMENGISTU, TITO2021-11-222023-11-182021-11-222023-11-182021-08http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/28816Frontline health professionals are under a great deal of stress, including a high risk of suspected or confirmed COVID-19 infection, a potential resource shortage, as well as a job overload. The objective was assess the magnitude of psychological distress and burnout among health professionals and statistically significant difference of health professionals who had contact history of COVID -19 suspected and/or confirmed patients during the (COVID-19) outbreak in Menillik II referral hospital. A descriptive survey was conducted using simple random sampling techniques with 272 of health professionals who has been working in Menellik-II referral hospital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. An independent t-test and/or one-way ANOVA for testing variation at 95% confidence interval and P-value < 0.05were used to compare means of independent variables. A P-value less than 0.05 will consider being statistically significant in all cases. Magnitude of burnout and psychological distress was assessed by validated English language version of the Maslach Burnout Inventory and Kessler 10 scale respectively. Clean data was coded, entered, and analyzed by using computer software SPSS version 20. About 258 (96.7% response rate) respondents completed the questionnaire and used for analysis. The participants were included 24% special or general doctor, 34.1% BSc nurse, 22.5% health officer, 6.2% Midwifery, 4.3% Laboratory technician and 8.9% others types health professionals. A 229(88.7%) of health professionals were had a direct contact history with patients of COVID-19 confirmed or suspected during work time. A health professionals who had contact history of Covid-19 confirmed or suspected clients were developed 130(56.7%) moderate, 90(39.3%) high and 2 (0.8%) very high psychological distress. As well as from health professionals who had contact history of Covid-19 confirmed or suspected clients were recorded 88 moderate to high emotional exhaustion, 190 moderate to high depersonalization and 192 moderate to high personal accomplishments. Male nurses, female Midwifery, male Laboratory technician, and others types of female health professionals were recorded high prevalence of psychological distress and burnout. There is a statistically significant difference in psychological distress, personal accomplishment, and emotional exhaustion, but not in depersonalization scores between health profession types. There is a statistically significant difference in psychological distress and burnout scores between working areas or wards of the health profession. This study shows more than half of health professionals were categorized as having mild to severe psychological distress and burnout in related to the COVID-19 pandemic and other factors. About 0.8% of the health professionals in surveyed hospital considered that they might need psychological or psychiatric treatment in the future. Regular assessment of the prevalence of burnout and psychological distress within hospitals and other health systems of health professionals in might help to identify risk factors or protective factors for burnout, psychological distress and other mental disorders; this would benefit individuals and health systems/organizationenThesis