Indian Healthcare Workers’ Issues, Challenges, and Coping Strategies during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study

Ali, Anahita; Kumar, Santosh

doi:10.3390/ijerph20043661

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“…This suggests that the association between marital status and psychological impact extends beyond regional boundaries. Additionally, studies conducted in Turkey (67) and India (68) showed that higher educational qualifications are associated with better psychological well-being and coping mechanisms among HCWs, aligning with the findings of this study.…”

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Psychosocial impact of COVID-19 pandemic: experience of healthcare workers in Qatar

Al-Qudimat,

Singh,

Mustafa

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound and global impact on healthcare systems worldwide, presenting unprecedented challenges for healthcare workers (HCWs) on the front. We aimed to evaluate the prevalence of anxiety and depression symptoms during the coronavirus pandemic among healthcare professionals in Qatar.MethodsA cross-sectional study where an electronic questionnaire containing demographics, and psychosocial questions were made on Google Docs and Microsoft Team, and were sent through email and WhatsApp to healthcare workers, including doctors, nurses, allied health and others working at Hamad Medical Corporation in Qatar, from June 1, 2021, to January 1st 2023. ANOVA, t-test and multiple linear regression were used to see the association between the psychological factors and sociodemographic variables using STATA version 17 software.ResultsA total of 829 participants were included in this study (response rate: 55%). The average age of the participants is 36.0 ± 7.1; 65.9% were males; 2.3% were doctors and 53% were nurses, 38.7% were allied healthcare professionals and 6% were others. Psychological, social effects, and workplace were shown to significantly related to their marital status, career, and hospital setting (p < 0.01 for each). Similar to this, dealing with COVID-19 patients and their education level with the length of time working at the designated facility were all connected with the health professional safety score (p < 0.05).ConclusionDuring the COVID-19 epidemic, healthcare workers in Qatar experienced a high incidence of negative psychosocial symptoms. To alleviate these outcomes, it would be useful to implement screening procedures for such symptoms and to devise preventive measures accordingly.

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Psychosocial impact of COVID-19 pandemic: experience of healthcare workers in Qatar

Al-Qudimat,

Singh,

Mustafa

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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“…Indian HCWs worked in high-pressure and stressful environments, due to which those working in COVID-19-designated hospitals reported clinically significant depression and poor sleep [28]. A study done in India has also shown similar findings where sleep-deprived HCWs working during this pandemic have been pushed for stress, mental health illness, and non-adaptive coping strategies [29,30]. A study done in Italy among healthcare professionals attributed sleep disturbances to psychological stress and women were at more risk.…”

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Post-COVID Quality of Life and Sleep Among Younger Healthcare Workers of Designated COVID Care Centers: A Cross-Sectional Study

TS¹,

KK²,

Bhavanam³

et al. 2023

Cureus

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Introduction Frontline healthcare workers (FLHCWs) have been persuaded to work this coronavirus disease (COVID) pandemic way in and out but the pandemic has not subsided. The persistence of symptoms after COVID infection, especially chest symptoms like early fatigue with breathlessness, has been documented very well. However, FLHCWs have repeatedly caught the COVID infection and have been working in traumatic and helpless situations since the pandemic started. Post-COVID infection, quality of life (QOL) and sleep are greatly affected, regardless of the time elapsed since discharge or recovery. The continuous assessment of COVID-infected persons for post-COVID sequelae is an important and effective step to reduce complications. Materials and methods This was a cross-sectional study conducted for a period of one year at R.L. Jalappa Hospital and Research Center, Kolar, and SNR District Hospital, Kolar, which were designated COVID care centers. FLHCWs working in these centers who had contracted COVID infection at least once, who were more than 18 years and less than 30 years, and who had experience of less than five years irrespective of their vaccination status were included in the study. FLHCWs with COVID-related health illnesses, which needed ICU admission and prolonged hospital admission, were excluded. To assess QOL, the WHO Quality of Life Brief Version (WHOQOL-BREF) questionnaire was used. To assess sleepiness, the Epworth daytime sleepiness scale was used. The study was started after the institutional ethical committee's clearance was obtained. Results A total of 201 healthcare workers (HCWs) completed the survey. Of the participants, 119 (59.2%) were male, 107 (53.2%) were junior residents, 134 (66.7%) were unmarried, and 171 (85.1%) said they followed regular shifts. Male HCWs had higher scores in the psychological, social relationship, and environmental domains of QoL. Consultants had higher scores in all domains of QoL. Married HCWs had higher scores in the physical, psychological, and social relationship domains of QoL. Out of 201 FLHCWs, 67 (33.3%) had moderate excessive daytime sleep, and 25 (12.4%) had severe excessive daytime sleep. Few factors like gender, occupation, duration of work in the hospital, and regular shifts were statistically significant factors associated with daytime sleepiness. Conclusion The present study has shown that even after the COVID vaccination doses received by the HCWs, sleep and Qol have still been impaired among infected younger healthcare staff. Acceptable and righteous efforts must be made by the institutions for proper policymaking to manage such infectious outbreaks in the future.

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“…Community-level challenges were reported by 11 studies (47.5%) conducted in Africa ( n = 3, 27.25%), India ( n = 3, 27.25%), Bangladesh ( n = 1, 9.1%), Nigeria ( n = 1, 9.1%), Pakistan ( n = 1, 9.1%), South Korea ( n = 1, 9.1%), and Turkey ( n = 1, 9.1%). Challenges included mainly poor societal support (e.g., community members did not recognize HCWs’ contribution during the pandemic) and stigma, isolation and discrimination from society as they had to work in COVID-19 wards, and community members feared that they will contract COVID-19 from HCWs [ 33 , 36 , 38 – 40 , 42 , 45 , 64 – 66 , 70 ]. Needs were reported by two studies (18.2%) with HCWs reporting support provided by the society by recognizing their contribution in providing support to people and following public protocols for controlling the spread of COVID-19 so as to reduce the burden on them [ 36 , 38 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

Mapping the needs of healthcare workers caring for COVID-19 patients using the socio-ecological framework: a rapid scoping review

Konstantinou,

Theofanous,

Karekla

et al. 2024

Hum Resour Health

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Undoubtedly, the mental health of healthcare workers (HCWs) was negatively affected because of caring for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, literature is limited on mapping the challenges and needs of HCWs during COVID-19 pandemic. A widely used framework in public health for mapping evidence includes the socio-ecological models, suggesting behavior can be influenced by individual, interpersonal, organizational, and community factors. The aim of this rapid scoping review was to use the socio-ecological model to map and compile lessons learnt from the literature regarding primarily the challenges and needs and secondly available psychological interventions for HCWs caring for COVID-19 patients. PubMed, CINAHL and Scopus databases were searched, with 21 studies finally included examining challenges and needs of HCWs and 18 studies presenting psychological interventions. Organizational-level challenges and needs such as inadequate staff preparation and supplies of protective equipment, flexible work policies and paid rest periods were the most reported. Individual-level challenges and needs included COVID-19-related fears and reduced mental health, whereas interpersonal-related needs included support provision. Community-level challenges included societal stigma. Certain psychological interventions were found to be promising for HCWs, but these were utilized to address only individual-level challenges and needs. Given that well-being entails an interaction of factors, multi-level interventions addressing multiple socio-ecological levels (interpersonal, organizational, community) and that place HCWs in their social context should be administrated to increase and maintain intervention’ effects long-term and possibly aid in better coping with future pandemics.

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Indian Healthcare Workers’ Issues, Challenges, and Coping Strategies during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study

Cited by 9 publications

References 40 publications

Psychosocial impact of COVID-19 pandemic: experience of healthcare workers in Qatar

Psychosocial impact of COVID-19 pandemic: experience of healthcare workers in Qatar

Post-COVID Quality of Life and Sleep Among Younger Healthcare Workers of Designated COVID Care Centers: A Cross-Sectional Study

Mapping the needs of healthcare workers caring for COVID-19 patients using the socio-ecological framework: a rapid scoping review

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