Prevalence of Fear and Anxiety Due to Covid-19 in Medical Staff and Non-medical Population: A Systematic Review Study

Abstract

Introduction: The lack of any definitive treatment or preventive method, and the prediction of some epidemiologists that most of the
population will infected with Covid-19, has caused a lot of stress and anxiety in people. So study aimed to review the prevalence of fear and anxiety due to Covid-19 in medical staff and non-medical population.
Method: in this study the databases including PubMed, Web of Science (ISI), Scopus, PsycINFO, EMBASE, Google Scholar, and national
databases such as Irandoc, Civilica, MagIran SID, using the keywords of fear, anxiety, prevalence, and covid-19 from the start of Covid-19 pandemic at December 2019 until July 2022 were searched in order to find the related articles.
Results: Anxiety prevalence in women was higher than in men, in people who follow the news related to Covid-19 was more than those who didn’t follow, among younger people was higher than older, in people in the region with the high epidemic of covid-19 was more than a low epidemic region, and in people who had an unchanging residence was higher than those who change. Also, anxiety prevalence among medical staff was higher than the non-medical.
Conclusion: The prevalence of anxiety in most people especially in medical staff was high. Special measures should be taken to reduce
anxiety among the medical staff and non-medical population.