en Epidemiology Original Article <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="color:black">Background: </span></span></span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="color:black">The outbreak of COVID-19 has a serious crisis for health systems in different countries. This study aimed to investigate the association between COVID-19 anxiety and cognitive failure and temperament components in the personnel of a hospital in the Yazd Province.</span></span></span></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="color:black">Materials and Methods:</span></span></span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="color:black"> This was a cross-sectional study. The participants were the personnel of a hospital. The convenience sampling method was used for the sampling purpose. The participants were the personnel of COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 sections of a hospital. Data collection tools included a demographic questionnaire, the Corona Disease Anxiety Scale (CDAS), the Cognitive Failure Questionnaire (CFQ), and the Emotionality Activity Sociability (EAS) Questionnaire. Data analysis was performed in SPSS-24 software.&nbsp; </span></span></span></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="color:black">Results:</span></span></span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="color:black"> The mean age of the participants was 33.45 (6.42) years. COVID-19 anxiety was significantly higher in the non-COVID-19 personnel than in the COVID-19 personnel (P < 0.001). In addition, a positive correlation was found between COVID-19 anxiety scores and cognitive failure scores (P = 0.04). After investigating the simultaneous relation of COVID-19 anxiety with cognitive failure and temperament components, the model results showed that cognitive failure (P = 0.02) and sociability (P < 0.001) had a significant effect on COVID-19 anxiety.</span></span></span></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="color:black">Conclusions:</span></span></span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="color:black"> High levels of COVID-19 anxiety in non-COVID-19 section personnel indicated the importance of paying more attention to all hospital occupations. To reduce cognitive failure and anxiety, it is recommended to provide psychological training, workloads reduction, and the number of personnel be increased.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div> Temperament,Cognitive Dysfunction,Anxiety,COVID-19,Nurses, 187 197 http://johe.rums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-457-3&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Rohollah Fallah Madvari fallah134@gmail.com 22400319475328460011383 22400319475328460011383 No Assistant Prof., Occupational Health Research Center, Dept. of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran. Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences Mohammad Javad Zare Sakhvidi r.fallahmadvari@ssu.ac.ir 22400319475328460011384 22400319475328460011384 No Associate Prof., Occupational Health Research Center, Dept. of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran. Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences Fatemeh Kargar Shouroki fallah134@yahoo.com 22400319475328460011385 22400319475328460011385 No Assistant Prof., Occupational Health Research Center, Dept. of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran. Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences Reyhane Sefidkar mjn78328@gmail.com 22400319475328460011386 22400319475328460011386 No Assistant Prof., Center for Healthcare Data Modeling, Dept. of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran. Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences Fatemeh Babaee m.jn78@yahoo.com 22400319475328460011387 22400319475328460011387 No M.Sc in Psychology, Dept. of Psychology, Payame Noor University, Yazd, Iran. Payame Noor University Mahdi Jafari Nodoushan mjn495@gmail.com 22400319475328460011388 22400319475328460011388 Yes M.Sc in Occupational Health, Occupational Health Research Center, Dept. of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran. Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences