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COVID-19 is a new type of coronavirus spread throughout the world and has led to a global epidemic that affects every part of society. During the fight against this disease, health workers who were closely concerned with the diagnosis, treatment and care of the patients diagnosed with coronavirus had a heavy physical and psychological burden. It is emphasized that healthcare staff should be supported in publications on the protection of mental health of health workers in the epidemic process in order to prevent the negative impact of the epidemic. However, the COVID-19 epidemic requires the development of new conditions-friendly strategies because it creates an unprecedented burden on all health workers around the world. In this regard, it is important to identify effective approaches to the protection of mental health of health workers offering services in the front lines and to increase protective factors such as psychological stability. The content of positive religious treatment can be seen among the protective factors that affect the psychological stability of health workers. The positive religious behaviour, which includes religious practices such as refuge to Allah, prayer, reading the Qur’an, is the practice that gives strength from the spiritual side while breaking down the difficulties that life brings, while also providing a sense of control, peace and confidence. In this study, it is also asked to study the relationship between religious treatment and psychological stability in health workers through the COVID-19 pandemic process. For the publication of the study, the Ethical approval was obtained from the Presidency of the Social and Human Sciences Ethics Board of the Atatürk University (dated on 02.04.2021 and 88656144-000.E.2100103436). In the study, the quantial research methods used the visual scan method and the correlational/relational method. The universe of research is formed by staff working in health facilities that operate throughout the country. The examples consist of doctors, nurses, pharmacists, parents and other health workers who work in these health institutions. In the study, which used the patch sample method, more than 40 provinces reached 293 health workers. These people are accessed via the internet. As a data collection tool, the Personal Information Form, the Religious Exposure Scale and the Short Psychological Sustainability Scale have been used. It is requested to determine whether positive and negative religious dealing with the measurement tools applied and whether psychological stability differs or not according to gender and age variable. The relationship between positive and negative religious behavior and psychological stability has also been studied. In the analysis of demographic variables, T-Test and ANOVA were applied. In the analysis to test the relationship between the variables, correlation and regression analyses were used. The findings from the research showed that the levels of religious treatment and psychological stability of health workers vary according to demographic characteristics. Accordingly, there is no significant difference between men and women in their use of positive religious approaches, but it is clear that men use negative religious approaches more often than women. At the same time, the results indicate that with age, positive religious approaches are used more frequently. Psychological strength is also increasing depending on age. Correlation analysis has found that there is a meaningful relationship between positive religious treatment and psychological stability. The regression analysis to determine the effect of positive religious treatment in the relationship between variables has shown that positive religious treatment is a meaningful contributor to psychological stability. According to this conclusion, positive religious dealing is an important variable that affects psychological stability. In light of the findings of the research, it is proposed to develop a religious/spiritually-containing intervention program that can help the mental stability of the healthcare staff to pass this challenging process more conveniently. It is also believed that the results achieved in this study may contribute to other rehabilitation work that may be carried out to healthcare staff during and after the pandemic period. In addition, the research is important in providing scientific data on potential academic studies that may be carried out on health workers in the COVID-19 pandemic.

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