Comparison of Psychological Symptoms Profile of Nurses Working in the Covid-19 and non-Covid-19 Wards and its Relationship with Their Organizational Well-being

This study aimed to investigate the difference between the psychological symptoms of nurses working in the COVID-19 wards and other wards and the relationship between these psychological symptoms and their organizational well-being. Causal-comparative (post-event) and descriptive research method was used. The statistical population included all nurses working in different wards from October 2019 to March 2020 (70 nurses in COVID-19 and 70 nurses in non-COVID-19 wards) of Ayatollah Rouhani Hospital in Babol, Iran. Symptoms Clinical List-Revised (SCL-90) (Drogatis et al., 1973) and the Organizational Well-Being Scale (Zheng et al., 2015) were used to collect data. Multivariate and univariate variance and Pearson correlation analyses were conducted for statistical analysis. The findings indicate a significant difference between the two groups of nurses working in the Covid-19 and non-Covid-19 wards regarding hostility (Ƞ2=0.08, p<0.05, F = 0.057) and paranoid ideation (Ƞ2=0.049, p<0.05, F = 0.049). Also, among the nurses working in the covid-19 wards, the relationship between interpersonal sensitivity (r=0.348), depression (r=0.546), anxiety (r=0.353), hostility (r =-0.351), phobic anxiety (r=0.334), paranoid ideation (r=0.303) and psychoticism (r=0.397) are inverse and significant with organizational well-being. In conclusion, the score of aggression and paranoid ideation was significantly higher in nurses working in COVID-19 wards than in nurses working in other wards, and there is a relationship between psychological symptoms and organizational well-being among nurses working in COVID-19 wards.