id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-293921-hj8oecmk Halayem, Soumeyya How Tunisians physicians of public health hospitals deal with COVID‐19 pandemic? Perceived stress and coping strategies 2020-06-27 .txt text/plain 700 59 63 title: How Tunisians physicians of public health hospitals deal with COVID‐19 pandemic? . Several studies highlighted the psychological impact of COVID-19 among physicians [4, 5] . In Tunisia, there is no available publications about the stress experience and the coping strategies among health workers. This study aimed to examine the impact of the COVID-19 on Tunisian physicians working at public health hospitals' stress and coping strategies during the pandemic. Physicians who trusted on nationals polices managements of the COVID-19 outbreak were significantly less stressed (27.7, SD=5.75) than others (29. Stressed physicians used significantly more social This article is protected by copyright. The main finding of our study was the high score of stress among female and young physicians in training. We found that high level of stress was positively correlated with social support, resolving problem and negatively with avoidance. Stressed physicians in our sample have less trust on nationals polices managements of the COVID-19 outbreak. ./cache/cord-293921-hj8oecmk.txt ./txt/cord-293921-hj8oecmk.txt