An Analysis of Health Workers’ Quality of Life in Indonesia During COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

Pandemic of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has an impact on the life quality of health workers as the frontline in handling COVID-19 patients. This study aims to determine health workers' quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study was conducted in a observation with cross sectional technique. The population in this study was health workers in Indonesia. This study used non-probability sampling methods by 30 days of distributing e-questionnaires. The inclusion criteria of this study were men and women who work as health workers, aged 18-65 years old and were willing to become the respondents. The exclusion criteria were to not complete the questionnaire. The instrument used for this study was WHOQOL-BREF. The health workers' quality of life was analyzed descriptively by calculating the average transformed score of each domain. The sample for this study was 184 respondents consisting of 114 women and 70 men. 82 respondents aged 18-25, 90 respondents aged 26-45, and 12 respondents aged 46-65. The analysis of health workers' quality of life resulted: the physical health domain got an average score of 63.18±10.62, the psychological health domain got an average score of 60.33 ± 15.44, the social relation domain got an average score of 51.57 ± 17.61, and the environmental domain got an average score of 57.28 ± 12.48. In conclusion, health workers have a good physical health, a good psychological health, a moderate social relation, and a moderate environment during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Assessment of Quality of Life Among Health Professionals During COVID-19: Review

“…SARS-COV-2 infects the respiratory system, specifically the cells lining the alveoli, in humans. 2 , 5 , 7 , 9 , 10 The first instance of COVID-19 was confirmed in Wuhan, Hubei Region, China. According to estimates, five SARS patients were treated first before the disease spread to all other countries.…”

“…According to estimates, five SARS patients were treated first before the disease spread to all other countries. 2 , 7 , 11 , 12 The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic in March 2020. 3 , 13–15 …”

“…The risk factors are close contact, particularly living in the same house with a COVID-19 patient, and travel history to and from infected locations have been identified by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. 2 , 16 According to the World Health Organization (WHO), as of August 6, 2021, there were 200,840,180 confirmed positive COVID-19 cases, with a mortality rate of 4,265,903, and vaccination status of 3,984,596,440. 4 COVID-19 individual’s clinical manifestations range from asymptomatic, moderate symptoms to pneumonia, severe pneumonia, ARDS, sepsis, and septic shock.…”

“…4 COVID-19 individual’s clinical manifestations range from asymptomatic, moderate symptoms to pneumonia, severe pneumonia, ARDS, sepsis, and septic shock. 2 , 5 , 16 As the front-line inpatient management, medical professionals or health care workers are among the populations under a significant chance of infection. 2 , 10 , 12 , 17 There are several problems in the healthcare workplace and personal life, most of which are unforeseen during the epidemic of COVID-19.…”

“… 2 , 5 , 16 As the front-line inpatient management, medical professionals or health care workers are among the populations under a significant chance of infection. 2 , 10 , 12 , 17 There are several problems in the healthcare workplace and personal life, most of which are unforeseen during the epidemic of COVID-19. 11 , 17–19 …”