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The Perception of Workplace Safety and of Risk of Contagion among Preschool Teachers during the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic had a major impact on early childhood educational contexts and on educators’ working conditions. This study aims to examine the change over time in personal contribution to workplace safety and perception of risk of infection among preschool teachers after returning to in-perso...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10378074/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37508718 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10071222 |
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author | Bacci, Giulia Converso, Daniela Sottimano, Ilaria Martini, Mara |
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description | The COVID-19 pandemic had a major impact on early childhood educational contexts and on educators’ working conditions. This study aims to examine the change over time in personal contribution to workplace safety and perception of risk of infection among preschool teachers after returning to in-person work during the third wave of the pandemic (spring 2021). Teachers’ perceptions of workplace safety can influence their quality of work-life and, as a consequence, the quality of service offered to children. Data were collected using two questionnaires: at T0 (January) and at T1 (May). The results showed relations between organizational and personal actions to manage risk and fear of infection at work. Concern about COVID-19 contagion decreased over time (t = 5.53, p = 0.000) and perceptions of personal contribution to workplace safety related to COVID-19 improved: t = −2.18 p = 0.031. The decrease in these concerns illustrates how perceptions of ability to manage contagion and protect workplace safety of preschool teachers improved over time, despite the stability of the pandemic context in the first half of 2021. After the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, this study gives an account of some good practices and their perceived effectiveness in terms of safety for childhood educational contexts. |
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spelling | pubmed-103780742023-07-29 The Perception of Workplace Safety and of Risk of Contagion among Preschool Teachers during the COVID-19 Pandemic Bacci, Giulia Converso, Daniela Sottimano, Ilaria Martini, Mara Children (Basel) Article The COVID-19 pandemic had a major impact on early childhood educational contexts and on educators’ working conditions. This study aims to examine the change over time in personal contribution to workplace safety and perception of risk of infection among preschool teachers after returning to in-person work during the third wave of the pandemic (spring 2021). Teachers’ perceptions of workplace safety can influence their quality of work-life and, as a consequence, the quality of service offered to children. Data were collected using two questionnaires: at T0 (January) and at T1 (May). The results showed relations between organizational and personal actions to manage risk and fear of infection at work. Concern about COVID-19 contagion decreased over time (t = 5.53, p = 0.000) and perceptions of personal contribution to workplace safety related to COVID-19 improved: t = −2.18 p = 0.031. The decrease in these concerns illustrates how perceptions of ability to manage contagion and protect workplace safety of preschool teachers improved over time, despite the stability of the pandemic context in the first half of 2021. After the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, this study gives an account of some good practices and their perceived effectiveness in terms of safety for childhood educational contexts. MDPI 2023-07-14 /pmc/articles/PMC10378074/ /pubmed/37508718 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10071222 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Bacci, Giulia Converso, Daniela Sottimano, Ilaria Martini, Mara The Perception of Workplace Safety and of Risk of Contagion among Preschool Teachers during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title | The Perception of Workplace Safety and of Risk of Contagion among Preschool Teachers during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full | The Perception of Workplace Safety and of Risk of Contagion among Preschool Teachers during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_fullStr | The Perception of Workplace Safety and of Risk of Contagion among Preschool Teachers during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | The Perception of Workplace Safety and of Risk of Contagion among Preschool Teachers during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_short | The Perception of Workplace Safety and of Risk of Contagion among Preschool Teachers during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_sort | perception of workplace safety and of risk of contagion among preschool teachers during the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10378074/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37508718 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10071222 |
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