| Abstrakt: |
Special Education and Rehabilitation Centres (SERCs) are rare institutions where health and education professionals work together. This study aims to investigate fear of Covid-19, attention to social distance, and occupational burnout among health and education professionals working in the SERCs during the pandemic. Our study group consisted of 150 professionals, 97 of whom graduated from the health science faculty and 53 from the education faculty, all employed at 17 different SERCs in Turkey between July and November 2021. The Covid-19 Fear Scale was used to measure Covid-19 fear, the Social Distancing Scale for social distance attention, and the Maslach Burnout Scale for occupational burnout. Both groups showed similar Covid-19 fear frequencies of 84.9% for health professionals and 83.5% for education professionals. Health professionals significantly (p=0.027) paid more attention to social distancing. Healthcare professions have significantly better scores for total occupational burnout, emotional exhaustion, and depersonalization. There was a significant positive moderate relationship between the fear of Covid-19, emotional exhaustion (p<.000, r=.423), and depersonalization (p<0.000, r=.547). There was a significant positive, very weak relationship between the attention to social distancing and depersonalization (p=0.005, r=229). Fear of Covid-19 and occupational burnout among health and education professionals working in SERCs are similar and as common as among frontline health workers in a hospital. SERCs can be considered as priority institutions where protection support should be provided during a pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
