Stress- and Work-Related Burnout in Frontline Health-Care Professionals During the COVID-19 Pandemic
| Autor: | Yun Ji Lee, Jungmi Yun, Taehwa Kim |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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health-care professionals
burnout business.industry education Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health SAVE-9 (stress and anxiety to viral epidemic scale) COVID-19 Burnout Work related humanities Distress Quality of life Compassion fatigue Health care depression Medicine Anxiety medicine.symptom business Depression (differential diagnoses) Clinical psychology Original Research |
| Zdroj: | Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness |
| ISSN: | 1938-744X 1935-7893 |
| Popis: | Objective: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is affecting humankind in unprecedented and monumental ways. Health-care professionals (HCPs) have had to deal with traumatic and complex situations at work. However, the current understanding of the emotional effects on HCPs and their vulnerability during the pandemic is limited. We investigated the effects of HCPs’ viral epidemic-related stress, professional quality of life (ProQOL), depression, and anxiety on their health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Methods: We recruited a convenience sample of 60 HCPs at 2 tertiary hospitals in provinces P and Y, Republic of Korea. We analyzed their demographics, viral epidemic-related distress, ProQOL (compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress), depression, anxiety, and HRQOL through self-reported questionnaires. Results: Burnout had a significant direct effect on depression, anxiety, physical health, and psychological HRQOL and indirectly affected all subcategories of HRQOL. Viral epidemic-related stress had no significant direct effect on any variable, but indirectly affected all subcategories of HRQOL. Depression and anxiety were endogenous variables (mediators). Depression was a pathway that directly and significantly affected all subcategories of HRQOL. Burnout had the most significant effect on physical health and psychological HRQOL, whereas depression had the greatest effect on social relationships and environmental HRQOL. Conclusions: Low compassion satisfaction caused burnout in HCPs, and burnout was significantly associated with depression, anxiety, and HRQOL. Furthermore, HRQOL showed a greater response when affected by indirect burnout through depression and anxiety than when directly affected by burnout. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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