Table 2 The categories and sub-categories extracted from the data
Categories | Sub-categories |
|---|---|
Death anxiety | Inductive death |
Mortality rate | |
Nurses’ inability to help patients | |
Anxiety due to the nature of the disease | Disease severity |
Disease’s unknown dimensions | |
Anxiety caused by corpse burial | NA |
Fear of infecting the family | NA |
Distress about time wasting | NA |
Emotional distress of delivering bad news | NA |
Fear of being contaminated | NA |
The emergence of obsessive thoughts | NA |
The bad feeling of wearing PPEa | NA |
Conflict between fear and conscience | NA |
Public ignorance of preventive measures | NA |