Awareness, anxiety, and stress among health-care workers deployed in swab collection during the COVID-19 pandemic in Andhra Pradesh, India: A cross-sectional study

• Main Authors: Mounika Konduru (Author), R V S Krishna Kumar (Author), Chandrasekhara Reddy V (Author), Srinivasulu Gomasani (Author), Veguru Prathyusha Reddy (Author), P Symon Prasanth (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Swab collection is a challenging task, and the health-care workers (HCWs) have to face many difficulties while collecting swab samples of suspected patients. They often need to counsel the suspects as some think they do not have an infection but carry fear. Appropriate precautions should...