Qasim Muhammad, Awan Usman Ayub, Afzal Muhammad Sohail, Saqib Muhammad Arif Nadeem, Siddiqui Shajee, Ahmed Haroon
Department of Economics, Finance and Statistics, Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden.
Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, University of Haripur, Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (22620), Pakistan.
Data Brief. 2020 Oct;32:106234. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2020.106234. Epub 2020 Sep 1.
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a global health emergency and has a huge impact on the health care workers, especially on their mental health. The dataset presented was an assessment of COVID-19 related knowledge, attitude, practices and its effects on the mental health of frontline healthcare workers in Pakistan. The data were collected using a snowball sampling technique. A questionnaire was developed assessing sociodemographic characteristics (6 items), knowledge (11 items), attitude (5 items), practices (6 items), information sources (1 item) and psychological implications (12 items) and distributed using online tools. The dataset includes 476 healthcare workers in Pakistan. The dataset will help to prevent and curb the spread of COVID-19 among health workers and contribute to policymakers. Furthermore, our dataset provides detailed insights into different risk factors of psychological problems, and it may be served as the reference for various in-depth surveys.
新冠疫情引发了全球卫生紧急状况，对医护人员产生了巨大影响，尤其是对他们的心理健康。所呈现的数据集是对与新冠相关的知识、态度、实践及其对巴基斯坦一线医护人员心理健康影响的评估。数据采用滚雪球抽样技术收集。开发了一份问卷，评估社会人口学特征（6项）、知识（11项）、态度（5项）、实践（6项）、信息来源（1项）和心理影响（12项），并通过在线工具进行分发。该数据集包括巴基斯坦的476名医护人员。该数据集将有助于预防和遏制新冠在医护人员中的传播，并为政策制定者提供参考。此外，我们的数据集提供了对心理问题不同风险因素的详细见解，可作为各种深入调查的参考。
