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Health care workers’ need for support from managers during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic placed great pressure on health care workers and increased the risk of these workers developing mental illness. Effective leadership is essential to prevent mental illness from developing. The study aim was to investigate health care workers’ perceptions of the supp...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9768758/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36544137 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-08937-9 |
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description | BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic placed great pressure on health care workers and increased the risk of these workers developing mental illness. Effective leadership is essential to prevent mental illness from developing. The study aim was to investigate health care workers’ perceptions of the support given by their managers, their need for such support, and their levels of anxiety during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: An electronic study-specific questionnaire was sent to health care workers. A convergent mixed-methods design was used, in which data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, t-tests, and qualitative content analysis. RESULTS: The majority of the 1074 participants experienced support from a manager who was physically present, caring, and sensitive to their needs, who provided information, and listened to their opinions. Those who did not receive this support experienced more anxiety, and the majority of them expressed a need for this support. A minority of the participants had a manager who scheduled reflection time; few asked for this support, and it was not found to be associated with lower anxiety levels. The qualitative analysis resulted in four themes: 1) A physically present and responsive manager who provides support based on the workers’ needs, 2) The workers understand their manager’s tough work situation and lack of resources, 3) There is a need for clear dissemination of information and participation in organizing the work, and 4) The care of patients is carried out with good cooperation. CONCLUSIONS: The majority of the health care workers received adequate support from their managers. A manager has to be physically present, caring, and supportive to meet the workers’ needs and potentially reduce anxiety levels. |
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spelling | pubmed-97687582022-12-21 Health care workers’ need for support from managers during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic Skogsberg, Matilda Jarl, Gustav Matérne, Marie BMC Health Serv Res Research BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic placed great pressure on health care workers and increased the risk of these workers developing mental illness. Effective leadership is essential to prevent mental illness from developing. The study aim was to investigate health care workers’ perceptions of the support given by their managers, their need for such support, and their levels of anxiety during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: An electronic study-specific questionnaire was sent to health care workers. A convergent mixed-methods design was used, in which data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, t-tests, and qualitative content analysis. RESULTS: The majority of the 1074 participants experienced support from a manager who was physically present, caring, and sensitive to their needs, who provided information, and listened to their opinions. Those who did not receive this support experienced more anxiety, and the majority of them expressed a need for this support. A minority of the participants had a manager who scheduled reflection time; few asked for this support, and it was not found to be associated with lower anxiety levels. The qualitative analysis resulted in four themes: 1) A physically present and responsive manager who provides support based on the workers’ needs, 2) The workers understand their manager’s tough work situation and lack of resources, 3) There is a need for clear dissemination of information and participation in organizing the work, and 4) The care of patients is carried out with good cooperation. CONCLUSIONS: The majority of the health care workers received adequate support from their managers. A manager has to be physically present, caring, and supportive to meet the workers’ needs and potentially reduce anxiety levels. BioMed Central 2022-12-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9768758/ /pubmed/36544137 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-08937-9 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 Skogsberg, Matilda Jarl, Gustav Matérne, Marie Health care workers’ need for support from managers during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic |
title | Health care workers’ need for support from managers during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full | Health care workers’ need for support from managers during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_fullStr | Health care workers’ need for support from managers during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Health care workers’ need for support from managers during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_short | Health care workers’ need for support from managers during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_sort | health care workers’ need for support from managers during the initial phase of the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9768758/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36544137 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-08937-9 |
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