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Background: The prevalence of Coronavirus and COVID-19 disease has had far-reaching effects in various aspects. Considering the importance of a comprehensive study of the disease of Covid-19 and its epidemic, this study was conducted.Methods: This research evaluated COVID-19 in pregnant women and children under 13 years of age in Nahavand City, west of Iran, from March 2020 to March 2021. Information about the epidemiology of COVID-19 disease was extracted from the infectious diseases unit of Nahavand Health Center. Descriptive statistics, chi-square test, and Logistic regression model were used to evaluate the disease. All data of this study were analyzed using SPSS software, version 16. The inclusion condition in this study was having positive RT-PCR. No general vaccination was performed at the time of this study.Results: 22.5% of the children had a positive RT-PCR test. The age group of 12-13 years had the most patients. 36.3% of children needed hospital treatment. Pregnant women comprised 2.08% of the infected population of Nahavand city in the defined time. 6.7% of them were hospitalized. The mean age of the pregnant women was 28.4 years. The mortality rate in both groups was zero.Conclusion: COVID-19 disease, in pregnant women, was significantly correlated with age, contact with COVID-19, underlying disease and hospitalization. According to the analysis of variance, there was a significant correlation between the disease and age groups in children under 13 years old.
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Introduction: Care of patients with coronavirus disease may have an impact on the occupational burnout, resilience, and parenting of nurses. The study was performed to evaluate occupational burnout, resilience, and parenting stress in nurses caring for COVID-19 patients. Material and methods: This cross-sectional study was based on Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) statement. A total of 630 nurses caring for COVID-19 patients in 5 hospitals were selected via convenience sampling. Participants completed the scales online. Data were analyzed in SPSS v. 22. Results: A total of 420 nurses completed and returned the questionnaires. The resilience mean score of the nurses who participated in the present study was 32.33 +/- 2.57 and the occupational burnout mean score was 32.33 +/- 2.57. Also, the parenting stress mean score of the 310 nurses who were married and had children was found to be 17.53 +/- 1.58 during the COVID-19 crisis. Occupational burnout has a negative correlation with resilience and a positive correlation with parenting stress and can predict 61.32% of changes in the occupational burnout variance of nurses Conclusions: Resilience, parenting stress, marital status, number of children, employment status, and gender predicted a high percentage of the nurses' occupational burnout variance. The nurse managers should use these findings to provide appropriate environments for nurses, to develop more comprehensive plans in support of nurses for the current and future crises.