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Concerns, perceived impact, practices, preventive measures, and stress among healthcare workers during COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia
INTRODUCTION: Healthcare workers (HCWs) have been continually exposed to patients with COVID-19 and are at higher risk of contracting the disease. Their psychological health is important for overall wellbeing and productivity, which could lead to a reduction in human errors during the pandemic crisi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10018122/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36935685 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1028443 |
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author | Pahrol, Muhammad Alfatih Ismail, Rohaida Mohamad, Nadia Lim, Yin Cheng Muhamad Robat, Rosnawati Rajendiran, Sakshaleni Syed Abu Thahir, Syahidiah Abdul Shakor, Ameerah Su'ad Ramly, Nurfatehar Shaharudin, Rafiza |
author_facet | Pahrol, Muhammad Alfatih Ismail, Rohaida Mohamad, Nadia Lim, Yin Cheng Muhamad Robat, Rosnawati Rajendiran, Sakshaleni Syed Abu Thahir, Syahidiah Abdul Shakor, Ameerah Su'ad Ramly, Nurfatehar Shaharudin, Rafiza |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Healthcare workers (HCWs) have been continually exposed to patients with COVID-19 and are at higher risk of contracting the disease. Their psychological health is important for overall wellbeing and productivity, which could lead to a reduction in human errors during the pandemic crisis. This study aimed to measure the level of concerns, work practices, adequacy of preventive measures among HCWs, and the impacts on their life and work, including mental health status during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia. METHODS: An online questionnaire was distributed randomly to 1,050 HCWs from the Ministry of Health facilities in the Klang Valley who were involved directly in managing or screening COVID-19 cases from May to August 2020. The questionnaire was divided into five domains, which were concerns, impact on life and work, practice, perceived adequacy of preventive measures, and Revised Impact of Event Scale (IES-R). Logistic regression was used to identify sociodemographic predictors of the five domains. RESULTS: A total of 907 respondents (86.4%) participated in this survey. Approximately half of the respondents had a low concern (50.5%), most of them had a good practice (85.1%), with 67.5% perceiving there were adequate preventive measures, and they perceived the outbreak had a low impact (92%) on their life and work. From the IES-R domain, 18.6% of respondents potentially suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). CONCLUSION: During the second wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in Malaysia, HCWs practiced high levels of precautions and preventive measures because they were aware of the risk of infection as an occupational hazard. With the adequate implementation of policy and control measures, the psychological wellbeing of the majority HCWs remained well and adequately supported. |
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spelling | pubmed-100181222023-03-17 Concerns, perceived impact, practices, preventive measures, and stress among healthcare workers during COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia Pahrol, Muhammad Alfatih Ismail, Rohaida Mohamad, Nadia Lim, Yin Cheng Muhamad Robat, Rosnawati Rajendiran, Sakshaleni Syed Abu Thahir, Syahidiah Abdul Shakor, Ameerah Su'ad Ramly, Nurfatehar Shaharudin, Rafiza Front Public Health Public Health INTRODUCTION: Healthcare workers (HCWs) have been continually exposed to patients with COVID-19 and are at higher risk of contracting the disease. Their psychological health is important for overall wellbeing and productivity, which could lead to a reduction in human errors during the pandemic crisis. This study aimed to measure the level of concerns, work practices, adequacy of preventive measures among HCWs, and the impacts on their life and work, including mental health status during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia. METHODS: An online questionnaire was distributed randomly to 1,050 HCWs from the Ministry of Health facilities in the Klang Valley who were involved directly in managing or screening COVID-19 cases from May to August 2020. The questionnaire was divided into five domains, which were concerns, impact on life and work, practice, perceived adequacy of preventive measures, and Revised Impact of Event Scale (IES-R). Logistic regression was used to identify sociodemographic predictors of the five domains. RESULTS: A total of 907 respondents (86.4%) participated in this survey. Approximately half of the respondents had a low concern (50.5%), most of them had a good practice (85.1%), with 67.5% perceiving there were adequate preventive measures, and they perceived the outbreak had a low impact (92%) on their life and work. From the IES-R domain, 18.6% of respondents potentially suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). CONCLUSION: During the second wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in Malaysia, HCWs practiced high levels of precautions and preventive measures because they were aware of the risk of infection as an occupational hazard. With the adequate implementation of policy and control measures, the psychological wellbeing of the majority HCWs remained well and adequately supported. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC10018122/ /pubmed/36935685 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1028443 Text en Copyright © 2023 Pahrol, Ismail, Mohamad, Lim, Muhamad Robat, Rajendiran, Syed Abu Thahir, Abdul Shakor, Ramly and Shaharudin. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Pahrol, Muhammad Alfatih Ismail, Rohaida Mohamad, Nadia Lim, Yin Cheng Muhamad Robat, Rosnawati Rajendiran, Sakshaleni Syed Abu Thahir, Syahidiah Abdul Shakor, Ameerah Su'ad Ramly, Nurfatehar Shaharudin, Rafiza Concerns, perceived impact, practices, preventive measures, and stress among healthcare workers during COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia |
title | Concerns, perceived impact, practices, preventive measures, and stress among healthcare workers during COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia |
title_full | Concerns, perceived impact, practices, preventive measures, and stress among healthcare workers during COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia |
title_fullStr | Concerns, perceived impact, practices, preventive measures, and stress among healthcare workers during COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia |
title_full_unstemmed | Concerns, perceived impact, practices, preventive measures, and stress among healthcare workers during COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia |
title_short | Concerns, perceived impact, practices, preventive measures, and stress among healthcare workers during COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia |
title_sort | concerns, perceived impact, practices, preventive measures, and stress among healthcare workers during covid-19 pandemic in malaysia |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10018122/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36935685 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1028443 |
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