Relationships of Mental Health With Psychological Vulnerability in Nurses Working in COVID-19 Wards: Mediated by Emotional Processing and Perceived Social Support

Background: Working in a hospital involves lot of long-term stress, which affects people who work helping professions and are immersed others’ problems. The present study aimed to determine the relationships between psychological capital, mental health, health anxiety with vulnerability through mediating role emotional processing perceived social support nurses working COVID-19 wards Shiraz City, Iran, 2021. Methods: This research is correlational using structural equation modeling (SEM). sample size included 200 from unit hospitals Shiraz. samples were selected multistage random sampling. Accordingly, five randomly, then, their unit. instruments scale, general questionnaire-28, capital questionnaire, multidimensional scale support. data analyzed AMOS-25 SEM Pearson correlation coefficient. Results: showed that proposed model fitted well. direct paths support, processing, negative significant (P<0.01). all positive There was no relationship processing. Conclusion: Psychological played effective roles reducing nurses’ could thus be used mitigate damages caused by during pandemic.