Perspectives and Experiences among Health Staff Work Field Professionals Recovered from COVID-19: Qualitative Study

Yahia, Ehsan Ahmed; Abdo Elmetwaly, Ola Ibrahim; Abdalgeleel, Shimaa Abdalaleem

doi:10.21608/asnj.2022.154733.1414

Perspectives and Experiences among Health Staff Work Field Professionals Recovered from COVID-19: Qualitative Study

Document Type : Original Research

Authors

¹ Lecturer of Medical Surgical Nursing Faculty of Nursing, Cairo University, Egypt

² Assistant Professor of Cancer Epidemiology & Biostatistics National Cancer Institute, Cairo University, Egypt

10.21608/asnj.2022.154733.1414

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.

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