Abstract:

The coronavirus is a global epidemic that was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020 and coping with stress in this process is extremely important especially for healthcare professionals in the fight against this epidemic. The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between demographic characteristics and the ways of coping with stress in the healthcare professionals at Bitlis State Hospital and to reveal the connection between the demographic characteristics and the styles of coping with stress in the public in the coronavirus process. For this purpose, literature review and scanning method, one of the quantitative research methods, were used. As a result of the study, it was revealed that the way of coping with stress in all demographic characteristics and subgroups of the participants in general was significantly higher despite the fight against coronavirus, however, it is appeared that they are using ineffective methods in terms of some approaches and subgroups.

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