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Psychological health, wellbeing and COVID-19: Comparing previously infected and non-infected South African employees

Most COVID-19 and work-related well-being research is centred around the adverse effects on employees’ psychological well-being and is not focused on the work-related well-being of those infected by SARS-CoV-2. Furthermore, COVID-19 and work-related well-being research is generally aimed at healthca...

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Autor principal: Hill, Carin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9669586/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36405203
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1013377
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description Most COVID-19 and work-related well-being research is centred around the adverse effects on employees’ psychological well-being and is not focused on the work-related well-being of those infected by SARS-CoV-2. Furthermore, COVID-19 and work-related well-being research is generally aimed at healthcare workers. The current study focused on investigating the difference in the level of burnout, anxiety, depression and stress between previously infected and uninfected participants. This study used a cross-sectional survey design and non-probability quota sampling to collect data. A retrospective pre-post design was used to determine the difference between the level of burnout of the participants before and after infection. Working adults in South Africa were targeted and divided into those previously infected (n = 245) and those not yet infected with COVID-19 (n = 221). Participants completed questionnaires relating to burnout, depression, anxiety, and stress. A comparison of means revealed a significant increase in burnout after being infected. Infected participants had significantly higher burnout, anxiety, depression, and stress levels than their non-infected counterparts. Emotional exhaustion, withdrawal, and stress were the most prevalent psychological ill-health problems. The results of this study indicated that a SARS-CoV-2 infection has a detrimental impact on participants’ psychological well-being and mental health compared to their own initially reported levels of burnout before infection, as well as compared to the levels of burnout, depression, anxiety and depression of the non-infected participants. Based on the findings, specific recommendations to industrial psychologists were made to manage the psychological impact of COVID-19 on employees.
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spelling pubmed-96695862022-11-18 Psychological health, wellbeing and COVID-19: Comparing previously infected and non-infected South African employees Hill, Carin Front Psychol Psychology Most COVID-19 and work-related well-being research is centred around the adverse effects on employees’ psychological well-being and is not focused on the work-related well-being of those infected by SARS-CoV-2. Furthermore, COVID-19 and work-related well-being research is generally aimed at healthcare workers. The current study focused on investigating the difference in the level of burnout, anxiety, depression and stress between previously infected and uninfected participants. This study used a cross-sectional survey design and non-probability quota sampling to collect data. A retrospective pre-post design was used to determine the difference between the level of burnout of the participants before and after infection. Working adults in South Africa were targeted and divided into those previously infected (n = 245) and those not yet infected with COVID-19 (n = 221). Participants completed questionnaires relating to burnout, depression, anxiety, and stress. A comparison of means revealed a significant increase in burnout after being infected. Infected participants had significantly higher burnout, anxiety, depression, and stress levels than their non-infected counterparts. Emotional exhaustion, withdrawal, and stress were the most prevalent psychological ill-health problems. The results of this study indicated that a SARS-CoV-2 infection has a detrimental impact on participants’ psychological well-being and mental health compared to their own initially reported levels of burnout before infection, as well as compared to the levels of burnout, depression, anxiety and depression of the non-infected participants. Based on the findings, specific recommendations to industrial psychologists were made to manage the psychological impact of COVID-19 on employees. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9669586/ /pubmed/36405203 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1013377 Text en Copyright © 2022 Hill. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title Psychological health, wellbeing and COVID-19: Comparing previously infected and non-infected South African employees
title_full Psychological health, wellbeing and COVID-19: Comparing previously infected and non-infected South African employees
title_fullStr Psychological health, wellbeing and COVID-19: Comparing previously infected and non-infected South African employees
title_full_unstemmed Psychological health, wellbeing and COVID-19: Comparing previously infected and non-infected South African employees
title_short Psychological health, wellbeing and COVID-19: Comparing previously infected and non-infected South African employees
title_sort psychological health, wellbeing and covid-19: comparing previously infected and non-infected south african employees
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9669586/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36405203
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1013377
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