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The Job Demands and Resources Related to COVID-19 in Predicting Emotional Exhaustion and Secondary Traumatic Stress Among Health Professionals in Spain
The current COVID-19 crisis may have an impact on the mental health of professionals working on the frontline, especially healthcare workers due to the increase of occupational psychosocial risks, such as emotional exhaustion and secondary traumatic stress (STS). This study explored job demands and...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7985327/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33767642 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.564036 |
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author | Moreno-Jiménez, Jennifer E. Blanco-Donoso, Luis Manuel Chico-Fernández, Mario Belda Hofheinz, Sylvia Moreno-Jiménez, Bernardo Garrosa, Eva |
author_facet | Moreno-Jiménez, Jennifer E. Blanco-Donoso, Luis Manuel Chico-Fernández, Mario Belda Hofheinz, Sylvia Moreno-Jiménez, Bernardo Garrosa, Eva |
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description | The current COVID-19 crisis may have an impact on the mental health of professionals working on the frontline, especially healthcare workers due to the increase of occupational psychosocial risks, such as emotional exhaustion and secondary traumatic stress (STS). This study explored job demands and resources during the COVID-19 crisis in predicting emotional exhaustion and STS among health professionals. The present study is a descriptive and correlational cross-sectional design, conducted in different hospitals and health centers in Spain. The sample consisted of 221 health professionals with direct involvement in treating COVID-19. An online survey was created and distributed nationwide from March 20 to April 15 which assessed: sociodemographic and occupational data, fear of contagion, contact with death/suffering, lack of material and human protection resources (MHRP), challenge, emotional exhaustion, and STS. Descriptive findings show high levels of workload, contact with death/suffering, lack of MHPR and challenge, and are moderately high for fear of contagion, emotional exhaustion, and STS. We found an indirect significant effect of lack of MHPR on predicting (1) emotional exhaustion through the workload and (2) on STS through fear of contagion, contact with death/suffering, and workload. To conclude, this study examines the immediate consequences of the crisis on health professionals' well-being in Spain, emphasizing the job demands related to COVID-19 that health professionals are facing, and the resources available in these health contexts. These findings may boost follow-up of this crisis among health professionals to prevent them from long-term consequences. |
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spelling | pubmed-79853272021-03-24 The Job Demands and Resources Related to COVID-19 in Predicting Emotional Exhaustion and Secondary Traumatic Stress Among Health Professionals in Spain Moreno-Jiménez, Jennifer E. Blanco-Donoso, Luis Manuel Chico-Fernández, Mario Belda Hofheinz, Sylvia Moreno-Jiménez, Bernardo Garrosa, Eva Front Psychol Psychology The current COVID-19 crisis may have an impact on the mental health of professionals working on the frontline, especially healthcare workers due to the increase of occupational psychosocial risks, such as emotional exhaustion and secondary traumatic stress (STS). This study explored job demands and resources during the COVID-19 crisis in predicting emotional exhaustion and STS among health professionals. The present study is a descriptive and correlational cross-sectional design, conducted in different hospitals and health centers in Spain. The sample consisted of 221 health professionals with direct involvement in treating COVID-19. An online survey was created and distributed nationwide from March 20 to April 15 which assessed: sociodemographic and occupational data, fear of contagion, contact with death/suffering, lack of material and human protection resources (MHRP), challenge, emotional exhaustion, and STS. Descriptive findings show high levels of workload, contact with death/suffering, lack of MHPR and challenge, and are moderately high for fear of contagion, emotional exhaustion, and STS. We found an indirect significant effect of lack of MHPR on predicting (1) emotional exhaustion through the workload and (2) on STS through fear of contagion, contact with death/suffering, and workload. To conclude, this study examines the immediate consequences of the crisis on health professionals' well-being in Spain, emphasizing the job demands related to COVID-19 that health professionals are facing, and the resources available in these health contexts. These findings may boost follow-up of this crisis among health professionals to prevent them from long-term consequences. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-03-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7985327/ /pubmed/33767642 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.564036 Text en Copyright © 2021 Moreno-Jiménez, Blanco-Donoso, Chico-Fernández, Belda Hofheinz, Moreno-Jiménez and Garrosa. http://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 | Psychology Moreno-Jiménez, Jennifer E. Blanco-Donoso, Luis Manuel Chico-Fernández, Mario Belda Hofheinz, Sylvia Moreno-Jiménez, Bernardo Garrosa, Eva The Job Demands and Resources Related to COVID-19 in Predicting Emotional Exhaustion and Secondary Traumatic Stress Among Health Professionals in Spain |
title | The Job Demands and Resources Related to COVID-19 in Predicting Emotional Exhaustion and Secondary Traumatic Stress Among Health Professionals in Spain |
title_full | The Job Demands and Resources Related to COVID-19 in Predicting Emotional Exhaustion and Secondary Traumatic Stress Among Health Professionals in Spain |
title_fullStr | The Job Demands and Resources Related to COVID-19 in Predicting Emotional Exhaustion and Secondary Traumatic Stress Among Health Professionals in Spain |
title_full_unstemmed | The Job Demands and Resources Related to COVID-19 in Predicting Emotional Exhaustion and Secondary Traumatic Stress Among Health Professionals in Spain |
title_short | The Job Demands and Resources Related to COVID-19 in Predicting Emotional Exhaustion and Secondary Traumatic Stress Among Health Professionals in Spain |
title_sort | job demands and resources related to covid-19 in predicting emotional exhaustion and secondary traumatic stress among health professionals in spain |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7985327/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33767642 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.564036 |
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