AUTHOR=Karimi Khordeh Negar , Dehvan Fazel , Dalvand Sahar , Repišti Selman , Ghanei Gheshlagh Reza 

TITLE=RETRACTED: The COVID-19 fear, anxiety, and resilience among emergency nurses

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=13

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.999111

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2022.999111

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=<sec><title>Background</title><p>Besides physical complications, COVID-19 is associated with psychological issues such as fear and anxiety. High resilience in nurses enables them to adopt positive coping mechanisms and successfully operate in the stressful environment of COVID-19 wards. The present study aimed to evaluate the correlation between COVID-19 fear and anxiety with resilience in the emergency nurses of the hospital affiliated with Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences (west of Iran) in 2021.</p></sec><sec><title>Materials and methods</title><p>This cross-sectional study was conducted on 295 emergency nurses of selected hospitals in Kurdistan province, Iran, in 2021. Data were collected using a demographic questionnaire, Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S), Corona Disease Anxiety Scale (CDAS), and Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC). Data analysis was performed in R software version 3.6.3.</p></sec><sec><title>Results</title><p>The mean scores of resilience, COVID-19 fear, and COVID-19 anxiety were 55.07 ± 19.82 (ranging from 0 to 100), 20 ± 7.37 (ranging from 7 to 35) and 36.48 ± 13.21 (ranging from 18 to 54) respectively. There was a negative and significant correlation between resilience with COVID-19 fear (<italic>r</italic> = −0.449, <italic>p</italic> = 0.001), COVID-19 anxiety (<italic>r</italic> = 0.458, <italic>p</italic> = 0.001). A significant correlation was observed between COVID-19 fear and anxiety, which indicated that if the other demographic variables remained unchanged, a one-unit increase in COVID-19 fear and anxiety decreased the mean resilience score by −0.66 (<italic>P</italic> = 0.008) and −0.34 (<italic>P</italic> = 0.015), respectively.</p></sec><sec><title>Conclusion</title><p>COVID-19 fear and anxiety were significantly correlated. Therefore, providing training courses for promoting resilience could reduce the fear and anxiety of nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic.</p></sec>