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Beliefs, attitudes and feelings about work among healthcare workers and teachers during the fifth wave of COVID-19

OBJECTIVE: To compare the beliefs, attitudes and feelings about work of healthcare professionals (HCPs) and teachers living in the Canary Islands (Spain) during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: The study had two parts. In Part 1, the Delphi technique was used to adapt a questionnaire. Part 2 was a cr...

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Autores principales: López, Borja N Santana, Adell, Ma Desamparados Bernat, Cabrera, Luciano Santana, Padilla, Yeray G Santana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: SAGE Publications 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10676073/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38000012
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03000605231206276
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Adell, Ma Desamparados Bernat
Cabrera, Luciano Santana
Padilla, Yeray G Santana
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Adell, Ma Desamparados Bernat
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description OBJECTIVE: To compare the beliefs, attitudes and feelings about work of healthcare professionals (HCPs) and teachers living in the Canary Islands (Spain) during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: The study had two parts. In Part 1, the Delphi technique was used to adapt a questionnaire. Part 2 was a cross-sectional, comparative study, performed from August 31st to October 25th, 2021 using the questionnaire online distributed to samples of HCPs and teachers. The questionnaire had three dimensions each separated into three sections (i.e., beliefs [coping ability, prevention and organisation]; attitudes [risks, commitments, and obligations]; feelings about work [burnout, support and work satisfaction]). RESULTS: In total 1423 questionnaires were available for analysis, 640 from teaching staff and 783 from HCPs. Significant differences were found in eight of the nine sections. HCPs had a more positive attitude towards work compared with teachers, but had more negative beliefs and feelings about work. In addition, by comparison with teachers, HCPs were more committed to their work, more predisposed to take risks and fulfill their obligations, even though our sample of teachers felt more supported and satisfied at work. CONCLUSIONS: Our results show that the pandemic caused a greater negative impact on job satisfaction of HCPs compared with teachers because they felt less supported by their superiors, which had a greater impact on their psychological health.
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spelling pubmed-106760732023-11-24 Beliefs, attitudes and feelings about work among healthcare workers and teachers during the fifth wave of COVID-19 López, Borja N Santana Adell, Ma Desamparados Bernat Cabrera, Luciano Santana Padilla, Yeray G Santana J Int Med Res Observational Study OBJECTIVE: To compare the beliefs, attitudes and feelings about work of healthcare professionals (HCPs) and teachers living in the Canary Islands (Spain) during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: The study had two parts. In Part 1, the Delphi technique was used to adapt a questionnaire. Part 2 was a cross-sectional, comparative study, performed from August 31st to October 25th, 2021 using the questionnaire online distributed to samples of HCPs and teachers. The questionnaire had three dimensions each separated into three sections (i.e., beliefs [coping ability, prevention and organisation]; attitudes [risks, commitments, and obligations]; feelings about work [burnout, support and work satisfaction]). RESULTS: In total 1423 questionnaires were available for analysis, 640 from teaching staff and 783 from HCPs. Significant differences were found in eight of the nine sections. HCPs had a more positive attitude towards work compared with teachers, but had more negative beliefs and feelings about work. In addition, by comparison with teachers, HCPs were more committed to their work, more predisposed to take risks and fulfill their obligations, even though our sample of teachers felt more supported and satisfied at work. CONCLUSIONS: Our results show that the pandemic caused a greater negative impact on job satisfaction of HCPs compared with teachers because they felt less supported by their superiors, which had a greater impact on their psychological health. SAGE Publications 2023-11-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10676073/ /pubmed/38000012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03000605231206276 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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López, Borja N Santana
Adell, Ma Desamparados Bernat
Cabrera, Luciano Santana
Padilla, Yeray G Santana
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title Beliefs, attitudes and feelings about work among healthcare workers and teachers during the fifth wave of COVID-19
title_full Beliefs, attitudes and feelings about work among healthcare workers and teachers during the fifth wave of COVID-19
title_fullStr Beliefs, attitudes and feelings about work among healthcare workers and teachers during the fifth wave of COVID-19
title_full_unstemmed Beliefs, attitudes and feelings about work among healthcare workers and teachers during the fifth wave of COVID-19
title_short Beliefs, attitudes and feelings about work among healthcare workers and teachers during the fifth wave of COVID-19
title_sort beliefs, attitudes and feelings about work among healthcare workers and teachers during the fifth wave of covid-19
topic Observational Study
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10676073/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38000012
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03000605231206276
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