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Exhaustion in Healthcare Workers after the First Three Waves of the COVID-19 Pandemic
This study aims to identify the determinants of exhaustion of frontline and second-line healthcare workers (HCW) during the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. A case–control study was conducted based on an anonymously distributed questionnaire, which was completed by 1872 HCW. Exhaustion was asses...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9318340/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35886721 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19148871 |
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author | Oțelea, Marina Ruxandra Rașcu, Agripina Staicu, Cătălin Călugăreanu, Lavinia Ipate, Mădălina Teodorescu, Silvia Persecă, Ovidiu Voinoiu, Angelica Neamțu, Andra Calotă, Violeta Mateș, Dana |
author_facet | Oțelea, Marina Ruxandra Rașcu, Agripina Staicu, Cătălin Călugăreanu, Lavinia Ipate, Mădălina Teodorescu, Silvia Persecă, Ovidiu Voinoiu, Angelica Neamțu, Andra Calotă, Violeta Mateș, Dana |
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description | This study aims to identify the determinants of exhaustion of frontline and second-line healthcare workers (HCW) during the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. A case–control study was conducted based on an anonymously distributed questionnaire, which was completed by 1872 HCW. Exhaustion was assessed with a validated Romanian questionnaire. The Siegrist questionnaire was used to determine workload, reward and overcommitment. Frontline HCW reported significantly more frequent longer working hours (p = 0.0009) and a better perception of the management of the risk for infection (p = 0.0002) than second-line HCW. The effort and overcommitment scores were higher in frontline HCW (9.51 + 1.98 vs. 8.45 + 21, p < 0.001 and 16.34 ± 2.80 vs. 15.24 ± 2.94, p < 0.001, respectively) and the reward scores were lower (5.21 ± 1.522 vs. 5.99 ± 1.44, p < 0.001). In the fully adjusted regression model, age, imbalance between effort and reward, overcommitment and management of the risk of infection in the workplace were associated with the exhaustion score in each category of HCW. The number of working hours was correlated with exhaustion in frontline HCW and occupation in second-line HCW. There were more similarities than differences between frontline and second-line HCW. Even if frontline HCW had a higher risk of exhaustion, the risk was not negligible for all HCW. |
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spelling | pubmed-93183402022-07-27 Exhaustion in Healthcare Workers after the First Three Waves of the COVID-19 Pandemic Oțelea, Marina Ruxandra Rașcu, Agripina Staicu, Cătălin Călugăreanu, Lavinia Ipate, Mădălina Teodorescu, Silvia Persecă, Ovidiu Voinoiu, Angelica Neamțu, Andra Calotă, Violeta Mateș, Dana Int J Environ Res Public Health Article This study aims to identify the determinants of exhaustion of frontline and second-line healthcare workers (HCW) during the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. A case–control study was conducted based on an anonymously distributed questionnaire, which was completed by 1872 HCW. Exhaustion was assessed with a validated Romanian questionnaire. The Siegrist questionnaire was used to determine workload, reward and overcommitment. Frontline HCW reported significantly more frequent longer working hours (p = 0.0009) and a better perception of the management of the risk for infection (p = 0.0002) than second-line HCW. The effort and overcommitment scores were higher in frontline HCW (9.51 + 1.98 vs. 8.45 + 21, p < 0.001 and 16.34 ± 2.80 vs. 15.24 ± 2.94, p < 0.001, respectively) and the reward scores were lower (5.21 ± 1.522 vs. 5.99 ± 1.44, p < 0.001). In the fully adjusted regression model, age, imbalance between effort and reward, overcommitment and management of the risk of infection in the workplace were associated with the exhaustion score in each category of HCW. The number of working hours was correlated with exhaustion in frontline HCW and occupation in second-line HCW. There were more similarities than differences between frontline and second-line HCW. Even if frontline HCW had a higher risk of exhaustion, the risk was not negligible for all HCW. MDPI 2022-07-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9318340/ /pubmed/35886721 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19148871 Text en © 2022 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/). |
spellingShingle | Article Oțelea, Marina Ruxandra Rașcu, Agripina Staicu, Cătălin Călugăreanu, Lavinia Ipate, Mădălina Teodorescu, Silvia Persecă, Ovidiu Voinoiu, Angelica Neamțu, Andra Calotă, Violeta Mateș, Dana Exhaustion in Healthcare Workers after the First Three Waves of the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title | Exhaustion in Healthcare Workers after the First Three Waves of the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full | Exhaustion in Healthcare Workers after the First Three Waves of the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_fullStr | Exhaustion in Healthcare Workers after the First Three Waves of the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Exhaustion in Healthcare Workers after the First Three Waves of the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_short | Exhaustion in Healthcare Workers after the First Three Waves of the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_sort | exhaustion in healthcare workers after the first three waves of the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9318340/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35886721 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19148871 |
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