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Younas M, Dong Y, Menhas R, Li X, Wang Y, Noor U. Alleviating the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Physical, Psychological Health, and Wellbeing of Students: Coping Behavior as a Mediator. Psychol Res Behav Manag 2023; 16:5255-5270. [PMID: 38164325 PMCID: PMC10758179 DOI: 10.2147/prbm.s441395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2023] [Accepted: 12/14/2023] [Indexed: 01/03/2024] Open
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Background Public health procedures under the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown policy negatively affect people's health. Students' physical issues have been increased due to restrictions which further impact their psychological and overall well-being. Objective The research looks at the influence of coping behavior in mitigating the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on students' physical/psychological health and general well-being. Methods The study's participants were chosen from a pool of 2200 people using convenience sampling. Using an anonymous online poll, the main data were gathered. The collected data were analyzed by using Smart-PLS. Results From eight direct correlations, seven were found to be true, except the route pandemic -> overall wellbeing, which was not true. Furthermore, it was shown that the mediating effect of coping behavior was statistically significant in the routes of mediation. Conclusion Coping strategies have a significant role in how a person responds to trying circumstances. Our study's results suggest that coping strategies had a statistically significant mediation role in reducing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is concluded that appropriate coping strategies are an effective adaptation of a protective barrier against the damaging effects of COVID-19 on health.
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- Muhammad Younas
- School of Educational Technology, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Educational Technology, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
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- Research Center of Sport and Social Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Educational Technology, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Educational Technology, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Education, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China
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Khatooni M, Ghorbani A, Momeni M, Ghapanvari F. Resilience of first-line nurses during adaptation to the COVID-19 pandemic: A grounded theory study. Jpn J Nurs Sci 2023; 20:e12548. [PMID: 37329161 DOI: 10.1111/jjns.12548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2023] [Revised: 05/12/2023] [Accepted: 05/15/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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AIM Nurses are a vital resource in providing care to COVID-19 patients. During adaptation to the pandemic, the mental health of nurses was disturbed. The present study aimed to explain the resilience development process and adaptive strategies of first-line nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS This study was conducted based on the grounded theory qualitative approach. Twenty-two Iranian first-line nurses, who were employed in one teaching hospital in Qazvin city, were included via purposive and theoretical sampling. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews and were analyzed based on the Corbin and Strauss approach 2015. RESULTS The resilience development process of nurses had three stages including initial confrontation with changes, managing conditions and reorganizing, developing resilience. Professional commitment was identified as a core category that affected all stages of resilience development. Negative emotions, nurses' characteristics, and caring challenges were identified as contextual factors which affected the adaptation of nurses to the COVID-19 pandemic and the development of resilience. CONCLUSION Regarding the importance of professional commitment in the nurses' resilience development and not leaving the profession in the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to emphasize the ethical values and principles of the nursing profession in practice and especially in the education of nursing students. It is necessary to monitor mental health and provide professional psychological counseling by the healthcare systems; also, nursing managers should follow a supportive leadership style and consider first-line nurses' worries.
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- Marzieh Khatooni
- Metabolic Diseases Research Center, Research Institute for Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran
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- Metabolic Diseases Research Center, Research Institute for Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran
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- Metabolic Diseases Research Center, Research Institute for Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran
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- Intensive Care Nursing, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran
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Jiang H, Mei Y, Wang X, Zhao Z, Lin B, Wang W, Zhang Z. Professional calling among nursing students: a latent profile analysis. BMC Nurs 2023; 22:299. [PMID: 37660012 PMCID: PMC10474663 DOI: 10.1186/s12912-023-01470-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2023] [Accepted: 08/30/2023] [Indexed: 09/04/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND One factor that influences nursing students' decision to pursue a nursing career is professional calling. It is important to comprehend nursing students' professional calling, which may have an impact on their career choice and career development. OBJECTIVES To investigate possible calling types and contributing variables among nursing students. DESIGN Cross-sectional descriptive study. PARTICIPANTS A total of 10,583 nursing students were enrolled in this survey. METHODS From November 16th, 2022, to January 17th, 2023, a cross-sectional study was carried out among nursing students using a convenient sampling. The subjects were given the Chinese Calling Scale and the General Demographic Information Questionnaire. Latent profile analysis (LPA) was used to separate nursing students' professional calling into a variety of subgroups. To find the variables connected to the prospective calling categories, we used ordinal and multinomial Logistic regression analysis. RESULTS Respondents were divided into three calling groups, low (N = 3204), moderate (N = 4492), and high calling group (N = 2887), which accounted for 30.3%, 42.4%, and 27.3% of the total respondents, respectively, in accordance with the findings of the latent profile analysis. Across scale scores and dimensions for the three separate categories, three groups demonstrated statistically significant differences (both p < 0.001). Profile membership was predicted by 8 factors such as age, gender, location of origin, first volunteer experience, highest degree earned, marital status, student leadership experience, and political appearance. CONCLUSION Three latent calling patterns were found, and there was calling variability across nursing students. Special care should be given to students with low calling. Nursing students must use professional education tools to help them develop their career calling and stabilize the nursing team.
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- Hu Jiang
- School of Nursing and Health, Zhengzhou University, Henan, China
- Nursing department, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University (The First People's Hospital of Zunyi), Zunyi, China
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- School of Nursing and Health, Zhengzhou University, Henan, China
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- School of Nursing and Health, Zhengzhou University, Henan, China
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- School of Nursing and Health, Zhengzhou University, Henan, China
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- School of Nursing and Health, Zhengzhou University, Henan, China
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- School of Nursing and Health, Zhengzhou University, Henan, China
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- School of Nursing and Health, Zhengzhou University, Henan, China.
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Engström M, Jarnheden SH, Tham P. Staff quality of working life and turnover intentions in municipal nursing care and social welfare: a cross-sectional study. BMC Nurs 2023; 22:171. [PMID: 37202759 DOI: 10.1186/s12912-023-01339-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2022] [Accepted: 05/15/2023] [Indexed: 05/20/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Nurses and social workers are two common professions with a university degree working within municipal nursing care and social welfare. Both groups have high turnover intention rates, and there is a need to better understand their quality of working life and turnover intentions in general and more specifically during the Covid-19 pandemic. This study investigated associations between working life, coping strategies and turnover intentions of staff with a university degree working within municipal care and social welfare during the Covid-19 pandemic. METHODS A cross-sectional design; 207 staff completed questionnaires and data were analyzed using multiple linear regression analyses. RESULTS Turnover intentions were common. For registered nurses 23% thought of leaving the workplace and 14% the profession 'rather often' and 'very often/always'. The corresponding figures for social workers were 22% (workplace) and 22% (profession). Working life variables explained 34-36% of the variance in turnover intentions. Significant variables in the multiple linear regression models were work-related stress, home-work interface and job-career satisfaction (both for the outcome turnover intentions profession and workplace) and Covid-19 exposure/patients (turnover intentions profession). For the chosen coping strategies, 'exercise', 'recreation and relaxation' and 'improving skills', the results (associations with turnover) were non-significant. However, comparing the groups social workers reported that they used 'recreation and relaxation' more often than were reported by registered nurses. CONCLUSIONS More work-related stress, worse home-work interface and less job-career satisfaction together with Covid-19 exposure/patients (Covid-19 only for turnover profession) increase turnover intentions. Recommendations are that managers should strive for better home-work interface and job-career satisfaction, monitor and counteract work-related stress to prevent turnover intentions.
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- Maria Engström
- Department of Caring Science, Faculty of Health and Occupational Studies, University of Gävle, Gävle, Sweden.
- Medicine College, Lishui University, No. 1 Xueyuan Road, Lishui city, China.
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- Department of Social Work and Criminology, Faculty of Health and Occupational Studies, University of Gävle, Gävle, Sweden
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- Department of Social Work and Criminology, Faculty of Health and Occupational Studies, University of Gävle, Gävle, Sweden
- Department of Social Work, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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Buch-Vicente B, Acosta-Rodriguez JM, Sanchez-Sanchez ME, González-García N, Garcia-Ullan LL, de la Iglesia-Larrad JI, Montejo ÁL, Roncero C. Coping strategies used by health-care workers during the SARS-COV2 crisis. A real-world analysis. Psychiatry Res 2022; 317:114915. [PMID: 37732860 PMCID: PMC9575550 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2022.114915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2021] [Revised: 10/13/2022] [Accepted: 10/16/2022] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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The aim of this paper is to analyze the main coping strategies used by frontline teams during the first days of the COVID pandemic confinement in Spain. This information could be necessary in order to carry out training programs that allow a better handling of future emergency situations, as well as acting more effectively and with less negative emotional impact. A questionnaire was used to identify different psychological profiles for coping, and in turn, other relevant variables were analyzed. The most used strategies by health professionals were problem solving, desiderative thinking and social support. Emotional expression and social support were used more by women. Significantly different behaviors were found in desiderative thinking (lower in people of 35-50 years old, and social support, higher in people 35 years old). The symptoms most commonly experienced by medical personnel were: sleep disorders, anxiety, tension, depressive symptoms, gastrointestinal symptoms and general somatic muscular symptoms. A relationship could be determined between the age/gender of the workers and the participants' overall assessment of their ability to cope with the COVID-19 stress situation they had experienced (men 50 years old and women between 35 and 50 years old, who felt able or very able to cope with the stress caused by the health emergency. However, women <35 years old and >50 years old believed they were able to cope poorly with the circumstances. The advantage of specific training plans in order to help with some stress symptoms could be suggested, aimed at the acquisition of tools based on problem solving, and emotional management in stressful and emergency situations.
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- Bárbara Buch-Vicente
- Institute of Biomedicine of Salamanca (IBSAL), University of Salamanca, Avda Portugal 83, Salamanca 37001, Spain; School of Psychology, University of Salamanca, Spain
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- Institute of Biomedicine of Salamanca (IBSAL), University of Salamanca, Avda Portugal 83, Salamanca 37001, Spain.
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- Institute of Biomedicine of Salamanca (IBSAL), University of Salamanca, Avda Portugal 83, Salamanca 37001, Spain
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- Institute of Biomedicine of Salamanca (IBSAL), University of Salamanca, Avda Portugal 83, Salamanca 37001, Spain; Department of Statistics, University of Salamanca, Spain
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- Institute of Biomedicine of Salamanca (IBSAL), University of Salamanca, Avda Portugal 83, Salamanca 37001, Spain; Psychiatric Service, University of Salamanca Health Care Complex, Salamanca, Spain; Psychiatric Unit, School of Medicine, University of Salamanca, Spain
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- Institute of Biomedicine of Salamanca (IBSAL), University of Salamanca, Avda Portugal 83, Salamanca 37001, Spain; Psychiatric Service, University of Salamanca Health Care Complex, Salamanca, Spain; Psychiatric Unit, School of Medicine, University of Salamanca, Spain
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- Institute of Biomedicine of Salamanca (IBSAL), University of Salamanca, Avda Portugal 83, Salamanca 37001, Spain; Psychiatric Service, University of Salamanca Health Care Complex, Salamanca, Spain; School of Nursing, University of Salamanca, Spain
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- Institute of Biomedicine of Salamanca (IBSAL), University of Salamanca, Avda Portugal 83, Salamanca 37001, Spain; Psychiatric Service, University of Salamanca Health Care Complex, Salamanca, Spain
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Lin C, Siao S, Lin Y, Hsin P, Shelley M, Lee Y. Cognitive appraisals and coping strategies of registered nurses in the emergency department combating COVID-19: A scoping review. J Nurs Scholarsh 2022; 55:79-96. [PMID: 36138561 PMCID: PMC9538970 DOI: 10.1111/jnu.12815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2022] [Revised: 08/23/2022] [Accepted: 09/06/2022] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Explore the relevant evidence about stress-related cognitive appraisal and coping strategies among registered nurses in the emergency department (EDRNs) coping with the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS This scoping review followed the methodological framework of Arksey and O'Malley to map relevant evidence and synthesize the findings. We searched PubMed, EMBASE, CINAHL, Web of Science, and Scopus electronic databases for related studies from inception through February 2, 2022. This review further conducted study selection based on the PRISMA flow diagram and applied Lazarus and Folkman's Psychological Stress and Coping Theory to systematically organize, summarize, and report the findings. FINDINGS Sixteen studies were included for synthesis. Most of the studies showed that the majority of EDRNs were overwhelmed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Depression, triaging distress, physical exhaustion, and intention to leave ED nursing were cited as major threats to their wellness. Additionally, comprehensive training, a modified triage system, a safe workplace, psychological support, promotion of resilience, and accepting responsibility may help EDRNs cope with pandemic-related challenges effectively. CONCLUSION The long-lasting pandemic has affected the physical and mental health of EDRNs because they have increased their effort to respond to the outbreak with dynamically adjusted strategies. Future research should address a modified triage system, prolonged psychological issues, emergency healthcare quality, and solutions facing EDRNs during the COVID-19 or related future pandemics. CLINICAL RELEVANCE EDRNs have experienced physical and psychological challenges during the pandemic. The ED administrators need to take action to ensure EDRNs' safety in the workplace, an up-to-date triage system, and mental health of frontline nurses to provide high-quality emergency care for combating COVID-19.
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- Chia‐Hung Lin
- School of Nursing, College of MedicineNational Taiwan UniversityTaipeiTaiwan,Department of NursingTaipei Veterans General HospitalTaipeiTaiwan
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- School of Nursing, College of MedicineNational Taiwan UniversityTaipeiTaiwan
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- Department of NursingTaipei Veterans General HospitalTaipeiTaiwan
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- Department of NursingTaipei Veterans General HospitalTaipeiTaiwan
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- Department of Political Science, Department of StatisticsIowa State UniversityAmesIowaUSA
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- Department of Health Sciences, College of Health Professions and SciencesUniversity of Central FloridaOrlandoFloridaUSA
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Guardiano M, Boy P, Shapirshteyn G, Dobrozdravic L, Chen L, Yang H, Robbins W, Li J. Working Conditions and Wellbeing among Prison Nurses during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Comparison to Community Nurses. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 19:ijerph191710955. [PMID: 36078669 PMCID: PMC9518550 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph191710955] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2022] [Revised: 08/23/2022] [Accepted: 08/30/2022] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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The psychological health and work challenges of nurses working in prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic are understudied. We evaluated the work and wellbeing characteristics of a California prison nurse group, with a comparison to those of a community nurse group. From May to November 2020, an online survey measured psychosocial and organizational work factors, sleep habits, psychological characteristics, COVID-19 impacts, and pre-pandemic recall among 62 prison nurses and 47 community nurses. Prison nurses had significantly longer work hours (54.73 ± 14.52, p < 0.0001), higher pandemic-related work demands, and less sleep hours (5.36 ± 1.30, p < 0.0001) than community nurses. Community nurses had significantly higher pandemic-related fear levels (work infection: p = 0.0115, general: p = 0.0025) and lower perceived personal protective equipment (PPE) supply (p = 0.0103). Between pre-pandemic and pandemic periods, both groups had significantly increased night shift assignments and decreased sleep hours, but the prison group had increased work hours. Although not statistically significant, both groups had high occupational stress and prevalence of post-traumatic stress symptoms. Our results indicate that prison nurses experienced work and wellbeing challenges during the pandemic. Future research and practice ought to address nurses' workload, PPE, and psychological resources in correctional facilities and healthcare organizations.
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- Megan Guardiano
- School of Nursing, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- School of Nursing, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Quality Management Support Unit, Avenal State Prison, Avenal, CA 93204, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92617, USA
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- School of Nursing, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- School of Nursing, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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