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Can Psychological Empowerment Prevent Emotional Disorders in Presence of Fear of COVID-19 in Health Workers? A Cross-Sectional Validation Study

The global emergency produced by COVID-19 has been a turning point for health organizations. Healthcare professionals have been exposed to high levels of stress and workload. Close contact with infected patients and the infectious capacity of COVID-19 mean that this group is especially vulnerable to...

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Autores principales: Llorente-Alonso, Marta, García-Ael, Cristina, Topa, Gabriela, Sanz-Muñoz, María Luisa, Muñoz-Alcalde, Irene, Cortés-Abejer, Beatriz
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8068957/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33920260
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm10081614
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author Llorente-Alonso, Marta
García-Ael, Cristina
Topa, Gabriela
Sanz-Muñoz, María Luisa
Muñoz-Alcalde, Irene
Cortés-Abejer, Beatriz
author_facet Llorente-Alonso, Marta
García-Ael, Cristina
Topa, Gabriela
Sanz-Muñoz, María Luisa
Muñoz-Alcalde, Irene
Cortés-Abejer, Beatriz
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description The global emergency produced by COVID-19 has been a turning point for health organizations. Healthcare professionals have been exposed to high levels of stress and workload. Close contact with infected patients and the infectious capacity of COVID-19 mean that this group is especially vulnerable to contagion. In various countries, the Fear of COVID-19 Scale has been shown to be a fast and reliable tool. Early detection of fear complements clinical efforts to prevent emotional disorders. Thus, concepts focused on positive occupational health, such as Job Crafting or psychological empowerment (PE), have been examined as a tool to prevent mental health problems at work. In this work, we intended to adapt and validate the 7-item Fear of COVID-19 Scale in health workers (N = 194). The interpretation of the measurement model indicates adequate values of internal consistency reliability, and convergent and discriminant validity. The overall goodness of fit of the model was also adequate. The structural model indicates that the implementation of job crafting measures in health services leads to workers’ greater PE. High levels of anxiety and depression prevent health professionals from psychologically detaching from work. In turn, PE can reduce the emotional disorders caused by the fear of COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-80689572021-04-26 Can Psychological Empowerment Prevent Emotional Disorders in Presence of Fear of COVID-19 in Health Workers? A Cross-Sectional Validation Study Llorente-Alonso, Marta García-Ael, Cristina Topa, Gabriela Sanz-Muñoz, María Luisa Muñoz-Alcalde, Irene Cortés-Abejer, Beatriz J Clin Med Article The global emergency produced by COVID-19 has been a turning point for health organizations. Healthcare professionals have been exposed to high levels of stress and workload. Close contact with infected patients and the infectious capacity of COVID-19 mean that this group is especially vulnerable to contagion. In various countries, the Fear of COVID-19 Scale has been shown to be a fast and reliable tool. Early detection of fear complements clinical efforts to prevent emotional disorders. Thus, concepts focused on positive occupational health, such as Job Crafting or psychological empowerment (PE), have been examined as a tool to prevent mental health problems at work. In this work, we intended to adapt and validate the 7-item Fear of COVID-19 Scale in health workers (N = 194). The interpretation of the measurement model indicates adequate values of internal consistency reliability, and convergent and discriminant validity. The overall goodness of fit of the model was also adequate. The structural model indicates that the implementation of job crafting measures in health services leads to workers’ greater PE. High levels of anxiety and depression prevent health professionals from psychologically detaching from work. In turn, PE can reduce the emotional disorders caused by the fear of COVID-19. MDPI 2021-04-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8068957/ /pubmed/33920260 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm10081614 Text en © 2021 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/).
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Can Psychological Empowerment Prevent Emotional Disorders in Presence of Fear of COVID-19 in Health Workers? A Cross-Sectional Validation Study
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title_short Can Psychological Empowerment Prevent Emotional Disorders in Presence of Fear of COVID-19 in Health Workers? A Cross-Sectional Validation Study
title_sort can psychological empowerment prevent emotional disorders in presence of fear of covid-19 in health workers? a cross-sectional validation study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8068957/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33920260
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm10081614
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