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Fan Li1, Haiping Gu2, Umit Tokac1
1College of Nursing, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA.
SAGE Open Nursing
|January 11, 2024
Summary
COVID-19 healthcare workers, both volunteers and nonvolunteers, showed similar psychological responses. Interventions should focus on compassion satisfaction, general health, attitude toward life, and perceived stress for both groups to mitigate PTSD.
Area of Science:
- Medical Psychology
- Public Health
- COVID-19 Research
Background:
- During the COVID-19 outbreak, China utilized a volunteer system for healthcare professionals.
- Nurses and physicians volunteered for epicenter duty or remained at home caring for non-COVID patients.
- Limited research compared the psychological responses of these two groups.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate differences in psychological factors between COVID-19 volunteers and nonvolunteers.
- To examine relationships between compassion satisfaction, general health, attitude toward life, life satisfaction, perceived stress, and PTSD symptomatology.
- To explore the role of attitude toward life in COVID-19 research.
Main Methods:
- A cross-sectional study involving 259 nurse and physician volunteers and 330 nonvolunteers.
- Online surveys were administered to collect data.
- Multisample path analysis was used to analyze the data.
Main Results:
- No significant difference was found between the psychological models of volunteers and nonvolunteers.
- For volunteers, PTSD symptomatology was significantly related to compassion satisfaction, general health, attitude toward life, and perceived stress.
- For nonvolunteers, PTSD symptomatology was significantly related to general health and attitude toward life.
Conclusions:
- Both volunteer and nonvolunteer groups may benefit from psychological interventions.
- Interventions should consider compassion satisfaction, general health, attitude toward life, and perceived stress.
- Findings support the development of targeted psychological support for healthcare workers during pandemics and provide a foundation for future research on attitude toward life.
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