Fear of COVID-19, Nurse’s Stress, and Health Care Behaviors toward Elderly People

Alagamy, Zainab Gazar Alkotb; Metwaly, Shahira Mohamed; Zaki, Safaa Mohammed; Mohammed, Rokaia Fathi

doi:10.21608/niles.2021.93023.1057

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“…One of them was to keep themselves strong physically and mentally and safe while caring for the Covid-19 victims. This is consistent with the findings by Alagamy et al (2022) that meeting old people's health needs requires great effort as they are the most vulnerable group for high morbidity and mortality from Covid-19 cases. Next, she also needed to concentrate on applying to her university to not go to campus while undergoing home-quarantine for becoming close contacts, setting up home office and completing all important tasks while working at home, getting enough face masks, and getting enough ration for medical essentials, house sanitizer and food during home-quarantine.…”

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“Under Pressure”: An Autoethnography of a Language Educator Fighting the Fear and Cultivating Resilience during Covid-19

Bakar¹

2022

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Covid-19 has posed some kind of pressure and fear on educators across the world but educators are commended to not be discouraged but be resilient.However, autoethnographic research on educators fighting their pressure and fear, and subsequently cultivating resilience during Covid-19 is scarce. Thus, in this article, the author, who is a language educator, employed an autoethnography to critically examine her own lived experiences in understanding the pressure associated with her high job demands, the fear of death having to live with Covid-19 patients, and the resilience mechanisms she developed during the stressful time dealing with the respective pressure and fear. This autoethnography suggests three important contributions: the pressure on educators can be eased by providing them ample time to complete their heavy workload; the fear of Covid-19 can be relieved if family members can support each other through thick and thin and not resort to blackmailing; and the key to resilience is to maintain peace at all times. This article is hoped to provide educators and alike a reference to alter the way we live and deal with pressure and fear, now and beyond.

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“Under Pressure”: An Autoethnography of a Language Educator Fighting the Fear and Cultivating Resilience during Covid-19

Bakar¹

2022

IJARPED

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“…The present study aimed to conduct a direct evaluation of the efficacy of a combined online training in two types of mindfulness-based therapies for the reduction of compassion fatigue and burnout in geriatric nurses caring for institutionalized older people with dementia in a randomized controlled trial. Very few studies have investigated effective ways to reduce stress in staff caring for people with dementia in nursing homes in relation to compassion fatigue and caregiving satisfaction during this period [ 47 , 48 , 49 ]. This trial will extend our knowledge by evaluating whether online mindfulness training reduces stress and improves job satisfaction in this professional group.…”

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Mindfulness-Based Intervention for the Reduction of Compassion Fatigue and Burnout in Nurse Caregivers of Institutionalized Older Persons with Dementia: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Pérez¹,

Menéndez-Crispín²,

Sarabia‐Cobo

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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The recent COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted the mental health of nurses caring for institutionalized older people. Caring in this environment can be complex, with higher levels of burnout and compassion fatigue in staff. It is therefore important to find interventions to increase the well-being of staff. Mindfulness training is known to be effective in treating a variety of physical and mental health conditions. This study sought to conduct a direct evaluation of the effectiveness of a combined online training in two types of mindfulness-based therapies for the reduction of compassion fatigue and burnout in geriatric nurses caring for institutionalized elderly people with dementia. In a randomized controlled trial (n = 39 experimental group, n = 35 control group), we explored whether individuals with high levels of burnout and compassion fatigue would benefit more from an online mindfulness training program. The outcome variable was the ProQoL professional quality of life scale, which was collected at baseline, at six weeks, and at three months after completion of the intervention. Significant differences were found between both groups for the subscales Compassion Fatigue and Burnout (p < 0.05), with a significant improvement in the experimental group (significant effect size). These findings were maintained at three months after the end of the intervention for both compassion fatigue (F1,28 = 18.14, p = 0.003) and burnout (F1,28 = 7.25, p = 0.040). However, there were no differences between groups for the satisfaction subscale. The effect of time and the effects of comparing the two groups after controlling for time were statistically significant for all three subscales of the questionnaire (all p values < 0.001), with effect sizes ranging from small to large (R2 change 0.10–0.47). These data indicate that the experimental condition was more effective, explaining between 10 and 18% more of the variance. A short, online intervention based on mindfulness training appears to be effective for reducing compassion fatigue and burnout in geriatric nurses, with sustained effects over time.

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“…This high stress and heavy workload leads to gaps and deficiencies in caring for patients ( Bernacki et al, 2021 ; Masterson-Algar et al, 2021 ). In such a situation, caring behavior can be negatively affected by insufficient information about the disease, long and continuous care of affected patients, high workload, and constant exposure to death ( Alagamy et al, 2022 ). Although the unfavorable caring behaviors of nurses (focusing on routine and technical aspects more than the social-emotional aspects) can be a contributing factor to client's unmet needs ( Baljani et al, 2012 ), it was found that nurses’ caring behavior in the context of COVID-19 had been at a favorable level ( Hajibabaee et al, 2022 ).…”

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The Association between Caring Behavior and Death Anxiety among Iranian Nurses Working in Covid-19 Wards

Seyedfatemi,

Abbasi,

Bahrami

et al. 2023

SAGE Open Nursing

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Introduction Nurses who are at the forefront of the fight against Covid-19 have faced problems such as anxiety and stress due to the high contagiousness of this disease and the challenges of providing services to infected patients. Death anxiety and the resulting fear following the Covid-19 pandemic can affect caring behaviors and the quality of nursing care services. Objective The present study was conducted with the aim of determining the association between caring behaviors and death anxiety among Iranian nurses working in COVID-19 wards. Methods This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2021 in Tehran. The participants consisted of 233 nurses who were purposively selected from university hospitals in Iran. Data collection tools included Demographic Information Form, Death Anxiety Scale, and Caring Dimension Inventory (CDI-25). Data analysis was done using SPSS (version 16). Results Most of the participants were female (79.4%), had less than 5 years of work experience (50.6%), and had bachelor's degree (88.8%). Based on the results, the level of death anxiety among nurses was moderate (7.05 ± 3.85) and their caring behavior was at optimal level (103.03 ± 13.15). Among the subscales of caring behavior, physical-technical behaviors with mean of 46.43 ± 6.20 got the highest score, and unnecessary behaviors with mean of 4.39 ± 0.73 got the lowest score compared to other subscales. Based on data analysis findings, caring behavior and its dimensions had no significant correlation with nurses’ death anxiety ( p = 0.111). Conclusions Our results showed that despite having a moderate level of anxiety, nurses try to provide good care behaviors to patients with covid-19. However, reducing nurses’ anxiety can improve caring behaviors.

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Fear of COVID-19, Nurse’s Stress, and Health Care Behaviors toward Elderly People

Cited by 3 publications

References 15 publications

“Under Pressure”: An Autoethnography of a Language Educator Fighting the Fear and Cultivating Resilience during Covid-19

“Under Pressure”: An Autoethnography of a Language Educator Fighting the Fear and Cultivating Resilience during Covid-19

Mindfulness-Based Intervention for the Reduction of Compassion Fatigue and Burnout in Nurse Caregivers of Institutionalized Older Persons with Dementia: A Randomized Controlled Trial

The Association between Caring Behavior and Death Anxiety among Iranian Nurses Working in Covid-19 Wards

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