Introduction: The global devastating effect of COVID-19 has caused anxiety and fear to variable extent among the public. We aimed to evaluate the knowledge, attitude, socioeconomic burden, and the mental health problems regarding anxiety, depression, and obsessive-compulsive disorder during COVID-19 on the general population and HCWs in Egypt. Methods: This study was conducted using a semi-structured online questionnaire in May 2020. Data on demographic features, socioeconomic scale, knowledge, and attitude regarding COVID-19 and the effect on different aspects of life were collected. Assessment was done using Arabic versions of Beck’s Anxiety Inventory, Beck’s Depression Inventory–II, and Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale. We divided participants into non-health care workers (non-HCWs) and HCWs groups. Results: There were 524 participants who responded to the survey from 23 governorates. More than half of the participants were females (57.4%), middle age (53%), and middle socioeconomic class (66.6%). Non-HCWs were 402 and HCWs were 122. Most participants had good knowledge about the disease and a positive attitude toward protective measures particularly in HCWs. COVID-19 showed negative impact on different aspects of participants’ life. HCWs had higher frequency of anxiety (32%) and OCD (29%) than non-HCWs (30% and 28%, respectively) while non-HCWs had higher depression (69%) than HCWs (66.4%). HCWs had higher rates of severe depression (20.5%) with moderate and severe OCD (4.9%, 1.6% respectively) than non-HCWs. Female gender, young age, urban residence, students, smoking, history of medical illness, and low socioeconomic class were significant associated factors. Conclusions: Health care workers had good knowledge about COVID-19 and a positive attitude toward the protective measures relative to non-HCWs. COVID-19 had a negative impact on different aspects of life and had a major association with the anxiety, depression, and OCD in both groups. Health professionals are more likely to have these psychological consequences.

This study aims to investigate the effect of Financial, Social, and Psychological Problems during the disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the expectation of its impact in the future on the effects of life for workers in the health sector and Egyptian Stock Market sector. The research method used a quantitative method with resort to an ordinal logit regression model to assess the impact of fear from COVID-19 for job losses and future expectations toward COVID-19 influence on the lives of workers in terms of economic, social, and psychological aspects assess The results show the health workers were more affected by the COVID-19 pandemic regarding decreased net income, increased work hours, and children’s problems relative to the business workers .Regarding the socioeconomic level, the health workers had high percentages in the high class (16.9%) relative to the business workers (13.1%).In contrast, the business workers had high percentages in the low class (19%) relative to the health workers (25%).In addition, according to beck’s scales, the health workers had relatively higher levels of anxiety than another sector, while the level of depression was similar in both sectors. We conclude Health workers were negative affected by the COVID-19 pandemic more than business workers regarding psychological (anxiety), financial and social problems. The type of work sector plays a prominent role in determining the effects of COVID-19 on all aspects of employee life