Workload Factors Influencing Mental Health and the Intent to Leave Job During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Survey Analysis of Healthcare Workers Handling Mass Fatalities in the United States

Safety, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 10(4), P. 103 - 103

Published: Dec. 10, 2024

This study examines the impact of workload demands on mental distress and job retention among healthcare workers (HCWs) handling mass fatalities during COVID-19 pandemic. We utilized a cross-sectional validated survey to collect self-reported data from 206 HCWs in United States between April May 2023. The measured various dimensions workload, including mental, physical, temporal demands, as well frustration, their effects intent leave job. Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling was employed analyze relationships these variables, providing robust insights into direct indirect retention. Our findings reveal significant associations increased distress, which turn heightened Mental emerged critical mediator, linking decisions. highlights cycle understaffing intensification, exacerbated pandemics, contributes higher turnover rates. It underscores need for targeted interventions alleviate pressures, especially physical exertion associated with dead bodies. support can help improve HCWs’ health retention, ultimately enhancing resilience systems crisis situations.

Language: Английский

Anxiety and stress among Vietnamese health workers during the emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant: a cross-sectional study

Journal of Medicine and Life, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 17(10), P. 940 - 947

Published: Oct. 1, 2024

The prevalence and contributing factors of mental health issues among workers in Vietnam during the early 2022 Omicron wave remain underexplored. This study investigated associated with anxiety stress a Vietnamese hospital this period. A cross-sectional study, conducted from February 28 to April 14, 2022, at Hanoi Medical University Hospital, assessed 754 frontline using DASS-21 questionnaire via Google survey. Logistic regression models were used identify linked stress. Among healthcare workers, 22% experienced stress, 33% anxiety. Multivariable logistic analysis revealed that direct contact COVID-19 patients significantly increased likelihood experiencing (OR = 2.12, P < 0.01). Additionally, discrimination relatives friends was higher odds having 2.45, 0.001). Furthermore, heavy workload 1.95, Lastly, lack support colleagues 2.77, 0.05). remained significant initial wave. Identified these problems hold important policy implications for enhancing pandemic preparedness worldwide.

Language: Английский