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COVID-19 first appeared in the world in December 2019 as a viral pneumonia discovery. It soon spread throughout the world and caused many people to get sick and die. In March, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic and emergency state. Thro history, pandemies have threatened social, cultural, and economic lives that have affected states, societies, individuals. Anxiety in employees during COVID-19 pandemic develops; loneliness, anger, depression, insomnia and TSSB symptoms. These symptoms negatively affect the social, professional and daily lives of individuals. Increased depression and anxiety symptoms can lead to the appearance of consequences that will negatively affect mental health, such as stress disorders, insomnia, anger and fear. Health care is considered one of the most dangerous jobs. Anxiety can limit the cognitive processes of health workers and decrease their performance. This will eventually affect the quality of health care. In our study, the health workers; the presence of persons in the risk group in their family, the condition of trouble living in accessing personal protective equipment, the condition of being happy in the unit in which they work, the condition of worrying about carrying the virus to their family after they started working in the COVID-19 unit, the condition of feeling excluded by those around them has significantly affected the levels of anxiety after they started working in the COVID-19 unit. There is also a significant difference between the average scale score of those who need psychiatric support due to anxiety/fear after COVID-19 and those who begin to receive psychiatric treatment after COVID-19. The level of anxiety has been shown to be influenced by professional factors such as being happy in the unit where people are working with sociodemographic factors such as the presence of people in the risk group in their family, the status of access to personal protective equipment. In this regard, the working environments should be organized in such a way as to improve the quality of the professional life of health workers, and the place to stay for health workers with a risk in their families should be assigned. However, it is necessary to increase education and awareness activities. Our study will identify the relationship between COVID-19 pandemic worries levels and some sociodemographic variables, and provide for improvement studies on factors affecting worries levels. Purpose: This research was carried out to determine the relationship between COVID-19 pandemic worries levels of employees in a university hospital and some sociodemographic variables. Tools and Methods: The sample of the research carried out with the identifying and relationship-seeking design was made by 502 volunteers working in a university hospital between March and June 2020. The data was collected using a sociodemographic data form consisting of 32 questions, the Status Anxiety Inventory and the Continuity Anxiety Inventory. In the assessment of the data, t-test and one-way ANOVA for independent variables were used. Results: The statistical assessment of the research involved health workers’ gender, profession, the presence of people in the risk group in their families, the condition of trouble living in accessing personal protection equipment, the condition of being happy in the unit you work, the condition of worrying about the virus transfer to their family after starting to work in the COVID-19 unit, the condition of feeling excluded by those around them has been determined to have a significant impact on the levels of continuity and responsibility Worry. There is a significant difference between the average scale score of those who have changed their mental condition after COVID-19 and those who need psychiatric support due to anxiety/fear after COVID-19 and those who begin to receive psychiatric treatment after COVID-19. The result: the level of anxiety has been shown to be influenced by professional factors such as being happy in the unit where people are working with sociodemographic factors such as the presence of people in the risk group in their family, the status of access to personal protective equipment. Working environments should be organized in such a way as to improve the quality of professional life of health workers. However, it is necessary to increase education and awareness activities.