The Relationship Between Health Anxiety and Caregiver Burden in Informal Caregivers of Patients with COVID-19

Background: Irrational health anxiety increases due to insufficient information about COVID-19 and misinterpretation of allergy symptoms in favor COVID-19. The disease the caregiver burden informal caregivers and, subsequently, causes physical mental disorders for them negatively affects provision care patients. Objectives: This study aimed examine relationship between patients with Methods: In this cross-sectional correlational study, convenient sampling method was adopted select 340 who were discharged during last three weeks hospitalization Vasei Hospital Sabzevar City, Iran, 2021. To collect required data, online links demographic questionnaire, Salkoviskis's short inventory (SHAI), Novak Guest's Caregiver Burden Inventory (CBI) sent subjects through messengers. data analyzed using SPSS 22 as well descriptive analytical statistics. Results: According results, mean score 69.72 ± 14.91, 16.22 8.24. Pearson's test results indicative a significant (P < 0.001). Conclusions: Since found it argued that an important issue certainly deserving serious attention service providers.