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Indian Healthcare Workers’ Issues, Challenges, and Coping Strategies during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study
India faced the maximum number of mortalities and morbidities during the second wave of COVID-19. Healthcare workers (HCWs) worked in high-pressure and stressful environments. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the common issues, challenges, and coping strategies of HCWs, as well as the statistic...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9964157/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36834354 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20043661 |
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description | India faced the maximum number of mortalities and morbidities during the second wave of COVID-19. Healthcare workers (HCWs) worked in high-pressure and stressful environments. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the common issues, challenges, and coping strategies of HCWs, as well as the statistical association between demographical characteristics and coping strategies. A cross-sectional study was conducted with 759 HCWs, involving simple, random sampling in Rajasthan, India, between August 2022 and October 2022. Participants responded to a self-administered questionnaire that included a Brief–COPE inventory. The statistical association between commonly adopted coping strategies and demographic characteristics was tested using the chi-square test and Fisher’s exact test. A total of 669 (88%) respondents agreed that they faced issues during the COVID-19 pandemic: 721 (95%) participants experienced challenges at the personal level, 716 (94%) at the organizational level, and 557 (74%) at the societal level. Problem-focused coping strategies were frequently adopted by the participants. Gender, marital status, education, hours of work per day, and residential area were significantly associated with a problem-focused coping strategy (p < 0.05). The findings of this study reported a limited use of coping strategies by the participants during the public health crisis, despite facing issues and challenges at work. These findings highlight the need to assist HCWs in developing coping mechanisms to maintain good mental health at work. |
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spelling | pubmed-99641572023-02-26 Indian Healthcare Workers’ Issues, Challenges, and Coping Strategies during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study Ali, Anahita Kumar, Santosh Int J Environ Res Public Health Article India faced the maximum number of mortalities and morbidities during the second wave of COVID-19. Healthcare workers (HCWs) worked in high-pressure and stressful environments. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the common issues, challenges, and coping strategies of HCWs, as well as the statistical association between demographical characteristics and coping strategies. A cross-sectional study was conducted with 759 HCWs, involving simple, random sampling in Rajasthan, India, between August 2022 and October 2022. Participants responded to a self-administered questionnaire that included a Brief–COPE inventory. The statistical association between commonly adopted coping strategies and demographic characteristics was tested using the chi-square test and Fisher’s exact test. A total of 669 (88%) respondents agreed that they faced issues during the COVID-19 pandemic: 721 (95%) participants experienced challenges at the personal level, 716 (94%) at the organizational level, and 557 (74%) at the societal level. Problem-focused coping strategies were frequently adopted by the participants. Gender, marital status, education, hours of work per day, and residential area were significantly associated with a problem-focused coping strategy (p < 0.05). The findings of this study reported a limited use of coping strategies by the participants during the public health crisis, despite facing issues and challenges at work. These findings highlight the need to assist HCWs in developing coping mechanisms to maintain good mental health at work. MDPI 2023-02-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9964157/ /pubmed/36834354 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20043661 Text en © 2023 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 Ali, Anahita Kumar, Santosh Indian Healthcare Workers’ Issues, Challenges, and Coping Strategies during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title | Indian Healthcare Workers’ Issues, Challenges, and Coping Strategies during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title_full | Indian Healthcare Workers’ Issues, Challenges, and Coping Strategies during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title_fullStr | Indian Healthcare Workers’ Issues, Challenges, and Coping Strategies during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Indian Healthcare Workers’ Issues, Challenges, and Coping Strategies during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title_short | Indian Healthcare Workers’ Issues, Challenges, and Coping Strategies during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title_sort | indian healthcare workers’ issues, challenges, and coping strategies during the covid-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9964157/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36834354 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20043661 |
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