COVID-19 Phobia Of Emergency And Disaster Management Students

Abstract

This study was conducted to examine the COVID-19 phobia situations experienced by students of the emergency and disaster management program during the COVID-19 outbreak. It is a descriptive study. The research was conducted with the voluntary participation of 92 students studying in Erzincan Binali Yıldırım University Health Services Vocational School of Emergency and Disaster Management program between 01-12 July 2020. The data were collected electronically via Google Forms using the “COVID-19 Phobia Scale”. Written approval was obtained from the Ministry of Health General Directorate of Health Services COVID-19 Scientific Research Evaluation Commission and Erzincan Binali Yıldırım University Human Research Ethics Committee. The evaluation of the data was done by using the SPSS package program on the computer, by frequency, chi-square test, t test and One-Way Anova tests. The average age of the students is 20.12 ± 0.99 years. It was determined that 63% of the students were girls, 43.5% had a low income level and only 4.3% had a chronic disease. The mean score of the students on the COVID-19 Phobia Scale is 51.63 ± 16.15. As a result, it was determined that the COVID-19 phobia levels of the students participating in the study were moderate. In addition, there are important differences between the COVID-19 test status and the COVID-19 phobia scale. In the study, although there were no significant differences in terms of some socio-demographic characteristics (gender, income level and chronic disease status) and COVID-19 phobia, the mean scores of girls, those with low income and those with chronic diseases were found to be high.