Assessing the prevalence and predictors of secondary traumatic stress among emergency nurses in Palestine during COVID-19 pandemic. رسالة ماجستير

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic considered one of the most stressor now, which may affect the mentality of nurses in their working area, that can lead to developing secondary traumatic stress. Secondary traumatic stress is a stress that is resulted from an indirect exposer to a trauma, by seeing a trauma, working with a traumatic patient, or listening about a trauma. A cross sectional quantitative study was conducted among 16 different hospitals in west bank Palestine, that was aimed to assess the prevalence, predictors and consequences of secondary traumatic stress among emergency nurses in Palestine during the COVID-19 pandemic with a sample size N (258) nurses who are selected by a convenience sample. The results showed that the response rate from the total sample was (75 %), that 189 emergency nurses respond to the research study, the results indicate that Palestinian Emergency nurses had a high level of secondary traumatic stress, which (62.2%) had a secondary traumatic stress disorder, and more than (60 %) of had a high to sever level of secondary traumatic stress. The results indicates that emergency nurses had a moderate level of perceived stress, and high level of social support, low level of job satisfaction and organizational support, the result showed that Palestinian emergency nurses had a job burnout and using the both mechanisms of coping, and only the years of experiences, perceived stress and burnout can predict the prevalence

of secondary traumatic stress among emergency nurses in Palestine.