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Emotional intelligence of nurses caring for COVID-19 patients: A cross-sectional study

PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to assess the emotional intelligence of nurses caring for COVID-19 patients. METHODS: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study that was conducted from May to July 2020 in Tehran, Iran. Nurses caring for patients with COVID-19 were requested to fill in Bradbury...

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Autores principales: Moradian, Seyed Tayeb, Movahedi, Mahmoud, Rad, Mohammad Goudarzi, Saeid, Yaser
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8570798/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35094821
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apnu.2021.10.011
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author Moradian, Seyed Tayeb
Movahedi, Mahmoud
Rad, Mohammad Goudarzi
Saeid, Yaser
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description PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to assess the emotional intelligence of nurses caring for COVID-19 patients. METHODS: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study that was conducted from May to July 2020 in Tehran, Iran. Nurses caring for patients with COVID-19 were requested to fill in Bradbury and Graves's questionnaire online using a questionnaire in electronic format. RESULTS: Finally 211 nurses completed the questionnaires. Most of the nurses were working in critical care wards and caring for critical patients (61.6). Nurses' emotional intelligence was reported to be 63.19 (8.22). In general, the nurses' emotional intelligence was moderate. Between the dimensions, self-awareness and self-management had the highest scores. Also, the lowest score was related to self-management. The ward type and complexity of care had no effect on the scores of emotional intelligence. Nurses caring for patients with moderate disease severity had a higher relationship management score than nurses caring for critically ill patients (P < 0.05). CONCLUSION: The total score of emotional intelligence was moderate. Due to the continuation of the COVID-19 pandemic and the possibility of mental and physical fatigue of health care workers, improving emotional intelligence can be effective in resilience and stability of the psychological status of employees.
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spelling pubmed-85707982021-11-08 Emotional intelligence of nurses caring for COVID-19 patients: A cross-sectional study Moradian, Seyed Tayeb Movahedi, Mahmoud Rad, Mohammad Goudarzi Saeid, Yaser Arch Psychiatr Nurs Article PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to assess the emotional intelligence of nurses caring for COVID-19 patients. METHODS: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study that was conducted from May to July 2020 in Tehran, Iran. Nurses caring for patients with COVID-19 were requested to fill in Bradbury and Graves's questionnaire online using a questionnaire in electronic format. RESULTS: Finally 211 nurses completed the questionnaires. Most of the nurses were working in critical care wards and caring for critical patients (61.6). Nurses' emotional intelligence was reported to be 63.19 (8.22). In general, the nurses' emotional intelligence was moderate. Between the dimensions, self-awareness and self-management had the highest scores. Also, the lowest score was related to self-management. The ward type and complexity of care had no effect on the scores of emotional intelligence. Nurses caring for patients with moderate disease severity had a higher relationship management score than nurses caring for critically ill patients (P < 0.05). CONCLUSION: The total score of emotional intelligence was moderate. Due to the continuation of the COVID-19 pandemic and the possibility of mental and physical fatigue of health care workers, improving emotional intelligence can be effective in resilience and stability of the psychological status of employees. Elsevier Inc. 2022-02 2021-11-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8570798/ /pubmed/35094821 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apnu.2021.10.011 Text en © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. 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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