Skip to main content
Middle East Current Psychiatry

Table 3 PTSD symptoms, severity, and diagnosis among nursing staff

From: Post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms among nursing staff who provided direct care to COVID-19 patients: a cross-sectional study

 

COVID-dealing nursing staff (n = 51)

Non-COVID-dealing

nursing staff (n = 51)

P-value

SPRINT score

 Mean ± SD

18.57 ± 7.69

14.49 ± 7.01

0.035*a

 Median (range)

17 (6–36)

15 (0–30)

 

SPRINT severity, n (%)

33 (64.7)

21 (41.2)

0.029*b

PTSD

 No

25 (49)

37 (72.5)

0.025*b

 Yes

26 (51)

14 (27.5)

  1. SPRINT Short Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Rating Interview, SD standard deviation, PTSD post-traumatic stress disorder
  2. aP-values are based on the independent t-test
  3. bP-values are based on the chi-square test. Statistical significance at P ≤ 0.05
Back to article page