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Stress and turnover intention among healthcare workers in Saudi Arabia during the time of COVID-19: Can social support play a role?

The turnover intention of healthcare workers is a threat to the competence of health services, especially during COVID-19 time. This study aimed to investigate the association between stress and turnover intention among healthcare workers in Saudi Arabia and whether social support could affect this...

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Autor principal: Al-Mansour, Khalid
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8496805/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34618851
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258101
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description The turnover intention of healthcare workers is a threat to the competence of health services, especially during COVID-19 time. This study aimed to investigate the association between stress and turnover intention among healthcare workers in Saudi Arabia and whether social support could affect this association. In this cross-sectional study, healthcare workers in primary healthcare centers in Saudi Arabia responded to an online questionnaire assessing their sociodemographic and occupational history, stress levels using the Perceived Stress Scale-10 (PSS-10), social support using the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS), and turnover intention within the next few months. Path analysis was conducted to assess the mediating effect of social support on the association between stress and turnover intention. A total of 1101 healthcare workers (242 physicians, 340 nurses, 310 paramedics, and 209 administrative workers) participated in this study. The path between stress and support had a significant standardized regression weight (-.34, p < .05). The path between support and turnover had a significant standardized regression weight (.08, p < .05). The standardized total effect of stress on turnover without the impact of support was significant (-.39, p < .05). The direct effect of stress on turnover with the presence of support was significant (-.36, p < .05). The indirect effect of stress on turnover with the presence of support was significant (-.03, p < .05). Thus, there is evidence to show that support mediates the relationship between stress and support. Stress is associated with turnover intention among healthcare workers in Saudi Arabia. Social support had a mitigating effect on the relationship between stress and turnover intention.
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spelling pubmed-84968052021-10-08 Stress and turnover intention among healthcare workers in Saudi Arabia during the time of COVID-19: Can social support play a role? Al-Mansour, Khalid PLoS One Research Article The turnover intention of healthcare workers is a threat to the competence of health services, especially during COVID-19 time. This study aimed to investigate the association between stress and turnover intention among healthcare workers in Saudi Arabia and whether social support could affect this association. In this cross-sectional study, healthcare workers in primary healthcare centers in Saudi Arabia responded to an online questionnaire assessing their sociodemographic and occupational history, stress levels using the Perceived Stress Scale-10 (PSS-10), social support using the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS), and turnover intention within the next few months. Path analysis was conducted to assess the mediating effect of social support on the association between stress and turnover intention. A total of 1101 healthcare workers (242 physicians, 340 nurses, 310 paramedics, and 209 administrative workers) participated in this study. The path between stress and support had a significant standardized regression weight (-.34, p < .05). The path between support and turnover had a significant standardized regression weight (.08, p < .05). The standardized total effect of stress on turnover without the impact of support was significant (-.39, p < .05). The direct effect of stress on turnover with the presence of support was significant (-.36, p < .05). The indirect effect of stress on turnover with the presence of support was significant (-.03, p < .05). Thus, there is evidence to show that support mediates the relationship between stress and support. Stress is associated with turnover intention among healthcare workers in Saudi Arabia. Social support had a mitigating effect on the relationship between stress and turnover intention. Public Library of Science 2021-10-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8496805/ /pubmed/34618851 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258101 Text en © 2021 Khalid Al-Mansour https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title Stress and turnover intention among healthcare workers in Saudi Arabia during the time of COVID-19: Can social support play a role?
title_full Stress and turnover intention among healthcare workers in Saudi Arabia during the time of COVID-19: Can social support play a role?
title_fullStr Stress and turnover intention among healthcare workers in Saudi Arabia during the time of COVID-19: Can social support play a role?
title_full_unstemmed Stress and turnover intention among healthcare workers in Saudi Arabia during the time of COVID-19: Can social support play a role?
title_short Stress and turnover intention among healthcare workers in Saudi Arabia during the time of COVID-19: Can social support play a role?
title_sort stress and turnover intention among healthcare workers in saudi arabia during the time of covid-19: can social support play a role?
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8496805/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34618851
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258101
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