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Significance of organizational health features during the COVID-19 pandemic for the well-being of Lithuanian healthcare workers

SUMMARY: During various emergencies, especially pandemics, there is a heavy burden on healthcare workers and pharmacists. Organizational support plays a significant role in protecting their mental health. Though the study aimed analyze the subjectively perceived difficulties and challenges of health...

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Autores principales: Kukulskienė, Milda, Argustaitė-Zailskienė, Gita, Griciūtė, Aušra, Miglinė, Vilma, Kubilienė, Loreta, Žemaitienė, Nida
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10061304/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37008877
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1136762
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author Kukulskienė, Milda
Argustaitė-Zailskienė, Gita
Griciūtė, Aušra
Miglinė, Vilma
Kubilienė, Loreta
Žemaitienė, Nida
author_facet Kukulskienė, Milda
Argustaitė-Zailskienė, Gita
Griciūtė, Aušra
Miglinė, Vilma
Kubilienė, Loreta
Žemaitienė, Nida
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description SUMMARY: During various emergencies, especially pandemics, there is a heavy burden on healthcare workers and pharmacists. Organizational support plays a significant role in protecting their mental health. Though the study aimed analyze the subjectively perceived difficulties and challenges of healthcare workers related to organizing work in the context of a pandemic. METHODS: Twenty seven subjects (20 women, 7 men) participated in the qualitative research 30–45 min. Duration semi-structured interviews were performed, and thematic data analysis was applied. RESULTS: During the first wave of the COVD-19 pandemic, research participants experienced an avalanche of change in all significant areas of life: experienced general overall uncertainty, confusion in working order, and intense changes in work functions, responsibilities, and workload. These changes reduced the scope for control and predictability, there was a lack of structure and clarity. The avalanche of change caused by the COVID-19 pandemic provoked a strong and controversial emotional response. The contradiction was revealed between helplessness, disruption, loss of control experienced by staff and the internal and external pressure to adapt as quickly as possible to the functions of caregivers. The threats posed by the pandemic reinforced the need for active and engaged leadership and highlighted the key features of an employee supporting organization. CONCLUSION: Surviving the avalanche of change caused by the pandemic, healthcare workers and pharmacists emphasized the importance of management decisions about managing patient and employee health threats, clear work organization, active and inclusive leadership, change planning, and organizational concern for employee sustainability and emotional well-being. Regular, systematic, clear and understandable, timely, open and sincere, uncontroversial, and consistent communication of administration provides security for employees and can contribute to better physical and psychological well-being of employees.
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spelling pubmed-100613042023-03-31 Significance of organizational health features during the COVID-19 pandemic for the well-being of Lithuanian healthcare workers Kukulskienė, Milda Argustaitė-Zailskienė, Gita Griciūtė, Aušra Miglinė, Vilma Kubilienė, Loreta Žemaitienė, Nida Front Psychol Psychology SUMMARY: During various emergencies, especially pandemics, there is a heavy burden on healthcare workers and pharmacists. Organizational support plays a significant role in protecting their mental health. Though the study aimed analyze the subjectively perceived difficulties and challenges of healthcare workers related to organizing work in the context of a pandemic. METHODS: Twenty seven subjects (20 women, 7 men) participated in the qualitative research 30–45 min. Duration semi-structured interviews were performed, and thematic data analysis was applied. RESULTS: During the first wave of the COVD-19 pandemic, research participants experienced an avalanche of change in all significant areas of life: experienced general overall uncertainty, confusion in working order, and intense changes in work functions, responsibilities, and workload. These changes reduced the scope for control and predictability, there was a lack of structure and clarity. The avalanche of change caused by the COVID-19 pandemic provoked a strong and controversial emotional response. The contradiction was revealed between helplessness, disruption, loss of control experienced by staff and the internal and external pressure to adapt as quickly as possible to the functions of caregivers. The threats posed by the pandemic reinforced the need for active and engaged leadership and highlighted the key features of an employee supporting organization. CONCLUSION: Surviving the avalanche of change caused by the pandemic, healthcare workers and pharmacists emphasized the importance of management decisions about managing patient and employee health threats, clear work organization, active and inclusive leadership, change planning, and organizational concern for employee sustainability and emotional well-being. Regular, systematic, clear and understandable, timely, open and sincere, uncontroversial, and consistent communication of administration provides security for employees and can contribute to better physical and psychological well-being of employees. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-03-15 /pmc/articles/PMC10061304/ /pubmed/37008877 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1136762 Text en Copyright © 2023 Kukulskienė, Argustaitė-Zailskienė, Griciūtė, Miglinė, Kubilienė and Žemaitienė. 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.
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Kukulskienė, Milda
Argustaitė-Zailskienė, Gita
Griciūtė, Aušra
Miglinė, Vilma
Kubilienė, Loreta
Žemaitienė, Nida
Significance of organizational health features during the COVID-19 pandemic for the well-being of Lithuanian healthcare workers
title Significance of organizational health features during the COVID-19 pandemic for the well-being of Lithuanian healthcare workers
title_full Significance of organizational health features during the COVID-19 pandemic for the well-being of Lithuanian healthcare workers
title_fullStr Significance of organizational health features during the COVID-19 pandemic for the well-being of Lithuanian healthcare workers
title_full_unstemmed Significance of organizational health features during the COVID-19 pandemic for the well-being of Lithuanian healthcare workers
title_short Significance of organizational health features during the COVID-19 pandemic for the well-being of Lithuanian healthcare workers
title_sort significance of organizational health features during the covid-19 pandemic for the well-being of lithuanian healthcare workers
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10061304/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37008877
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1136762
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