ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Occupational Health and Safety
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1681478
This article is part of the Research TopicPromoting Mental Health among Healthcare ProfessionalsView all articles
Corona Phobia and Mental Health Among Nurses: Identifying Determinants in a Cross-Sectional Survey
Provisionally accepted
- 1Fethiye Faculty of Health Sciences, Muğla, Türkiye
- 2Mugla Sitki Kocman Universitesi, Mugla, Türkiye
- 3Dokuz Eylul Universitesi Hastanesi, Izmir, Türkiye
- 4Dokuz Eylul Universitesi Hemsirelik Fakultesi, Izmir, Türkiye
Select one of your emails
You have multiple emails registered with Frontiers:
Notify me on publication
Please enter your email address:
If you already have an account, please login
You don't have a Frontiers account ? You can register here
Background: Assessing the psychological impact of the pandemic on nurses is essential for protecting their well-being and ensuring the resilience of healthcare systems. Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional study following the STROBE reporting guidelines.The study included 417 nurses from “X” University Research and Practice Hospital who participated voluntarily. Data were collected between July and October 2021 using the Sociodemographic Data Form, the COVID-19 Phobia Scale (C19P-S), and the Mental Health Continuum Short Form (MHC-SF). Descriptive statistics and multiple linear regression analysis were used (p < 0.05). Results: The mean C19P-S score was 49.03 ± 17.29. Gender, education, perceived general health status, and intention to quit predicted 17% of COVID-19 phobia variance (R² = 0.17, p < 0.05). The mean MHC-SF score was 34.31 ± 16.53. Categorically, 46.8% of nurses were languishing in the emotional subdimension, 42.4% were mentally healthy, and 25% were languishing in social and psychological well-being. Conclusion: Nurses experienced moderate COVID-19 phobia, with female gender, undergraduate education, worse perceived health, and intention to quit emerging as significant predictors, collectively explaining 17% of the variance. Interventions are needed to strengthen nurses' mental health, particularly emotional well-being. Healthcare policymakers and administrators should implement strategies to support nurses’ psychological well-being and foster a fear-free work environment through empowerment.
Keywords: COVID-19, Corona phobia, Nurses, Mental Health, pandemic, Well-being
Received: 07 Aug 2025; Accepted: 06 Oct 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 YILDIRIM, YILDIZ and INTEPELER. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Menevse YILDIRIM, menevseyildirim@mu.edu.tr
Disclaimer: All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.