Volume 5 | Issue 4 | 1 of 8 Int J Psychiatr Res, 2022 Perceived Stress, Anxiety and Depression and its Associated Factors During COVID-19 Pandemic among Healthcare Workers in COVID-19 Health Facilities in Mogadishu Somalia 1 Board Director of Darul Hikma University and Senior lecturer and Researcher at Darul Hikma University, Somalia. 2 Medical Doctor at Emergency Department of De Martino Public Hospital, Somalia. 3 Director General of Mogadishu Medical and Imaging Academy Head of research Department at Darul Hikma University (DHU), Somalia. Abdirazak Yusuf Ahmed MBChB, MD, MPH 1* , Ikram Adam Aburrahman MBChB, MD 2 and Mustafa Yusuf Ahmed MD MPH 3 International Journal of Psychiatry Research ISSN 2641-4317 Research Article Citation: Ahmed AY, Aburrahman IA, Ahmed MY. Perceived Stress, Anxiety and Depression and its Associated Factors During COVID-19 Pandemic among Healthcare Workers in COVID-19 Health Facilities in Mogadishu Somalia. Int J Psychiatr Res 2022; 5(4): 1-8. ABSTRACT Coronavirus disease 2019 (abbreviated “COVID-19”) is an emerging respiratory disease that is caused by a novel coronavirus and was frst detected in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. The rapid spread of the disease created challenges for healthcare systems and forced healthcare workers to grapple with clinical and nonclinical stressors, including shortages of personal protective equipment, mortality and morbidity associated with COVID-19, fear of bringing the virus home to family members, and the reality of losing colleagues to the disease. Objective: This study was cried out to fnd-out the perceived anxiety, depression, stress as well as their associated factors among healthcare workers in COVID-19 health facilities in Mogadishu Somalia. Methods: The study was cross-sectional, descriptive analysis involving all healthcare workers in COVID-19 health facilities in Mogadishu Somalia namely Demartino hospital, Benadir hospital and Dr Summait hospital. The calculated sample size was 168 using slovin formula since the target population was known from the staf registration book, candidates were selected through systematic random sampling from each hospital in accordance with their proportion in the total population. Results: Anxiety was perceived mostly among respondents since only 30.7% were in normal level however only 10.7% had sever anxiety while stress was perceived the least since only 84.8% of participants were normal. Female participants were much more likely to have anxiety and stress, working department was also related with level of perceived anxiety, depression or stress; participants working at ICU and emergency were the most to have anxiety or stress compared to others. Conclusion: Perceived anxiety was the highest while only 1.1% of respondents had severe stress. Female gender as well as working departments was signifactly associated with the level of Anxiety and stress while average income, motivation and living condition was associated with depression. * Correspondence: Abdirazak Yusuf Ahmed, MBChB, MD, MPH, Board Director of Darul Hikma University and Senior lecturer and Researcher at Darul Hikma University, Director General of De Martino Public Hospital, Somalia. Received: 03 Ju2022; Accepted: 05 Jul 2022; Published: 10 Jul 2022