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Prediction of PTSD related to COVID-19 in emergency staff based on the components of self-compassion and perceived social support
BACKGROUND: On March 11(th), 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) proclaimed Coronavirus Disease of 2019 (COVID-19) a pandemic. In addition to severe health problems, the disease has had a major psychological impact on the public. The aim of this research was to examine the association between...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9154198/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35641937 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-04017-8 |
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author | Shahsavarinia, Kavous Amiri, Parastoo Mousavi, Zahra Gilani, Neda Saadati, Mohammad Soleimanpour, Hassan |
author_facet | Shahsavarinia, Kavous Amiri, Parastoo Mousavi, Zahra Gilani, Neda Saadati, Mohammad Soleimanpour, Hassan |
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description | BACKGROUND: On March 11(th), 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) proclaimed Coronavirus Disease of 2019 (COVID-19) a pandemic. In addition to severe health problems, the disease has had a major psychological impact on the public. The aim of this research was to examine the association between Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) related to COVID-19 in emergency staff and self-compassion and perceived social support. METHODS: Data were collected from 222 emergency staff working in two referral educational and health centers for COVID-19 affiliated to Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. The participants were recruited six months following the first case of hospitalization for COVID-19 in these two hospitals in Tabriz, Iran. Four questionnaires were used to measure the variables, including a researcher-made demographic checklist, PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5), the Multidimensional Perceived Social Support Scale (MSPSS) and the Self-Compassion Scale. RESULTS: The findings showed that age (r = 0.17, P = 0.034), self-judgment (r = 0. 36, P < 0.001), isolation (r = 0.44, P < 0.001) and over-identification (r = 0.15, P = 0.031) were associated with PTSD score, and there was also a statistically significant inverse relationship between the score of the self-kindness (r = - 0.19, P = 0.006) subscale and the overall score of PTSD in the emergency staff. CONCLUSION: During the COVID-19 pandemic, emergency staff have persistently faced potentially traumatic situations as first-line healthcare workers, suggesting the direness of this group’s mental health. By identifying the predisposing factors of the psychological pathology under study, this research can be applied in clinical practice and provide useful information for designing special interventions and protocols for emergency staff. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12888-022-04017-8. |
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spelling | pubmed-91541982022-06-02 Prediction of PTSD related to COVID-19 in emergency staff based on the components of self-compassion and perceived social support Shahsavarinia, Kavous Amiri, Parastoo Mousavi, Zahra Gilani, Neda Saadati, Mohammad Soleimanpour, Hassan BMC Psychiatry Research BACKGROUND: On March 11(th), 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) proclaimed Coronavirus Disease of 2019 (COVID-19) a pandemic. In addition to severe health problems, the disease has had a major psychological impact on the public. The aim of this research was to examine the association between Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) related to COVID-19 in emergency staff and self-compassion and perceived social support. METHODS: Data were collected from 222 emergency staff working in two referral educational and health centers for COVID-19 affiliated to Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. The participants were recruited six months following the first case of hospitalization for COVID-19 in these two hospitals in Tabriz, Iran. Four questionnaires were used to measure the variables, including a researcher-made demographic checklist, PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5), the Multidimensional Perceived Social Support Scale (MSPSS) and the Self-Compassion Scale. RESULTS: The findings showed that age (r = 0.17, P = 0.034), self-judgment (r = 0. 36, P < 0.001), isolation (r = 0.44, P < 0.001) and over-identification (r = 0.15, P = 0.031) were associated with PTSD score, and there was also a statistically significant inverse relationship between the score of the self-kindness (r = - 0.19, P = 0.006) subscale and the overall score of PTSD in the emergency staff. CONCLUSION: During the COVID-19 pandemic, emergency staff have persistently faced potentially traumatic situations as first-line healthcare workers, suggesting the direness of this group’s mental health. By identifying the predisposing factors of the psychological pathology under study, this research can be applied in clinical practice and provide useful information for designing special interventions and protocols for emergency staff. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12888-022-04017-8. BioMed Central 2022-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC9154198/ /pubmed/35641937 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-04017-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Shahsavarinia, Kavous Amiri, Parastoo Mousavi, Zahra Gilani, Neda Saadati, Mohammad Soleimanpour, Hassan Prediction of PTSD related to COVID-19 in emergency staff based on the components of self-compassion and perceived social support |
title | Prediction of PTSD related to COVID-19 in emergency staff based on the components of self-compassion and perceived social support |
title_full | Prediction of PTSD related to COVID-19 in emergency staff based on the components of self-compassion and perceived social support |
title_fullStr | Prediction of PTSD related to COVID-19 in emergency staff based on the components of self-compassion and perceived social support |
title_full_unstemmed | Prediction of PTSD related to COVID-19 in emergency staff based on the components of self-compassion and perceived social support |
title_short | Prediction of PTSD related to COVID-19 in emergency staff based on the components of self-compassion and perceived social support |
title_sort | prediction of ptsd related to covid-19 in emergency staff based on the components of self-compassion and perceived social support |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9154198/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35641937 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-04017-8 |
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