Activities and challenges of volunteers in confrontation with COVID-19: A qualitative study in Iran.

Autor: Irandoost SF; Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Clinical Research Institute, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran., Sedighi S; Health in Disasters and Emergencies, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran., Hoseini AS; Health Education and Promotion, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran., Ahmadi A; Educational Technology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran., Safari H; Health Promotion Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.; School of Nursing and Midwifery, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran., Ebadi Fard Azar F; Health Promotion Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran., Yoosefi Lebni J; Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: International journal of disaster risk reduction : IJDRR [Int J Disaster Risk Reduct] 2022 Nov; Vol. 82, pp. 103314. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Sep 23.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103314
Abstrakt: The control and prevention of COVID-19 requires the active and voluntary participation of the people. Because volunteers experience different activities and challenges, the present study aimed to identify the activities and challenges of volunteers in the face of COVID-19. The present study was conducted with a qualitative approach and conventional content analysis method among 35 volunteers in the field of COVID-19 using snowball sampling and semi-structured interviews. Data management was performed using MAXQDA-2018 software and its scrutiny was done by the Graneheim and Lundman analysis method. After analyzing the data, 2 main categories and 15 subcategories were obtained, including 1- Activities (instruction and training; production and distribution of hygiene items; economic aid; psychological and social support for COVID-19 affected people; cooperation with government organizations to implement quarantine; environmental disinfection; cooperation with and support of the medical staff; encouraging and persuading people to participate in voluntary work; attending and cooperating in high-risk centers) and 2- Challenges (fear and worry of getting infected; rejection; being different from other voluntary activities; experience of failure and helplessness; the difficulty of the recruitment and cooperation process; lack of adequate instruction on how to help). Volunteers have played wide and diverse roles in confrontation with COVID-19 and have been able to provide various types of support to government, health and social organizations and the general public in various ways, but due to the special circumstances of the COVID-19 epidemic, they have experienced many challenges at the same time.
Competing Interests: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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