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Quality of life of nursing internship students in Saudi Arabia during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic caused an unprecedented negative impact on the usual way of life. The fight against this fatal virus demands the united force of healthcare workers, including nurse interns (NIs). Therefore, being unprepared for a crisis of this magnitude which never happened in a c...

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Autores principales: Grande, Rizal Angelo N., Butcon, Vincent Edward R., Indonto, Maria Charito Laarni, Villacorte, Liza Mendizabal, Berdida, Daniel Joseph E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8015389/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33824852
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijans.2021.100301
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author Grande, Rizal Angelo N.
Butcon, Vincent Edward R.
Indonto, Maria Charito Laarni
Villacorte, Liza Mendizabal
Berdida, Daniel Joseph E.
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Butcon, Vincent Edward R.
Indonto, Maria Charito Laarni
Villacorte, Liza Mendizabal
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description BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic caused an unprecedented negative impact on the usual way of life. The fight against this fatal virus demands the united force of healthcare workers, including nurse interns (NIs). Therefore, being unprepared for a crisis of this magnitude which never happened in a century, nurses and NIs experience stress, trauma, and mental health issues that affect their quality of life (QoL). OBJECTIVES: This study inquired the demographic of the NIs, the responses of the participants to the domains of Quality of Life Evaluation Scale (QOLES), and the relationship between the participants’ responses to the scale to each of their demographic profiles. METHODS: This study used a quantitative cross-sectional design through an electronic survey form in the collection of data. Utilizing total enumeration as sampling technique, 152 NIs in Saudi Arabia completed the survey. RESULTS: Across the 22-item questionnaire, the NIs still feel safe being in the hospital, clinic, or other healthcare facilities with a mean of 3.32; while item 8, which is having abundant energy, had the lowest mean of 1.91. The overall mean is 2.61, interpreted as ‘important,’ signifying that the participants ‘agree to some extent.’ CONCLUSION: The QoL of the NIs focused more on their psychological wellbeing and social relationships while the environmental and physical domains had lesser emphasis. In terms of enhancing specificity, comprehensiveness, and generalizability of future studies in QoL, a larger sample and more rigorous design is recommended.
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spelling pubmed-80153892021-04-02 Quality of life of nursing internship students in Saudi Arabia during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study Grande, Rizal Angelo N. Butcon, Vincent Edward R. Indonto, Maria Charito Laarni Villacorte, Liza Mendizabal Berdida, Daniel Joseph E. Int J Afr Nurs Sci Article BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic caused an unprecedented negative impact on the usual way of life. The fight against this fatal virus demands the united force of healthcare workers, including nurse interns (NIs). Therefore, being unprepared for a crisis of this magnitude which never happened in a century, nurses and NIs experience stress, trauma, and mental health issues that affect their quality of life (QoL). OBJECTIVES: This study inquired the demographic of the NIs, the responses of the participants to the domains of Quality of Life Evaluation Scale (QOLES), and the relationship between the participants’ responses to the scale to each of their demographic profiles. METHODS: This study used a quantitative cross-sectional design through an electronic survey form in the collection of data. Utilizing total enumeration as sampling technique, 152 NIs in Saudi Arabia completed the survey. RESULTS: Across the 22-item questionnaire, the NIs still feel safe being in the hospital, clinic, or other healthcare facilities with a mean of 3.32; while item 8, which is having abundant energy, had the lowest mean of 1.91. The overall mean is 2.61, interpreted as ‘important,’ signifying that the participants ‘agree to some extent.’ CONCLUSION: The QoL of the NIs focused more on their psychological wellbeing and social relationships while the environmental and physical domains had lesser emphasis. In terms of enhancing specificity, comprehensiveness, and generalizability of future studies in QoL, a larger sample and more rigorous design is recommended. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2021 2021-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8015389/ /pubmed/33824852 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijans.2021.100301 Text en © 2021 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Berdida, Daniel Joseph E.
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title_short Quality of life of nursing internship students in Saudi Arabia during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study
title_sort quality of life of nursing internship students in saudi arabia during the covid-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8015389/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33824852
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijans.2021.100301
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