Personality and Attitudes Confronting Death Awareness During the COVID-19 Outbreak in Italy and Spain

Murphy, Mike; Moret-Tatay, Carmen

doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2021.627018

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“…On the other hand, an online study by González-Sanguino et al (7), described high levels of anxiety and depression, but also found a gender divide. They determined that women were more likely to report symptoms related to anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorders (8)(9)(10).…”

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The Relationship of Fear of Death Between Neuroticism and Anxiety During the Covid-19 Pandemic

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After a lockdown, particularly one where human life is at risk, there are expected to be psychological consequences. The examination of personality traits, where different adaptative and non-adaptative behaviors in the face of adversity are expected, is our interest. The aim of this research was to analyze the role fear of personal death played during the Covid-19 outbreak in relation to personality and anxiety. The main results can be described as follows: women displayed higher scores on anxiety and fear of personal death; gender, fear of personal death, neuroticism, and extraversion predicted anxiety; in men, the fear of personal death mediated the relationship between neuroticism and anxiety.

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“…Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 4537 2 of 18 can contribute to patient outcomes, effectiveness of medical institutions and the well-being of hospital staff [2].…”

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“…A latest systematic review of studies on the impact of COVID-19 on mental health indeed found that health care workers suffered from increased depression/depressive symptoms, anxiety, psychological distress and poor sleep quality [ 17 ]. A recent comparative study in Italy and Spain, the two countries badly hit by the COVID-19, found no cross-country differences of grief during the pandemic [ 18 ]. It is thus imperative to monitor the state of well-being of health care workers, irrespective of the country they are working in, in order to support the frontline soldiers in this long haul fight against the pandemic.…”

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Post-Pandemic Patient Safety Culture: A Case from a Large Metropolitan Hospital Group in Taiwan

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Patient safety is the core goal of medical institutions. The present study focuses on the patient safety culture and staff well-being admit the COVID-19 pandemic. In a large metropolitan hospital group, 337 employees who had participated in the quality improvement interventions completed an anonymous questionnaire of patient safety culture and personal well-being. The multiple regression analyses indicated that managerial role, seniority, female gender and direct contact with a patient were significantly related to the positive attitude on overall or certain dimensions of safety culture. Multivariate analysis also found that dimensions of teamwork climate, safety climate, job satisfaction and stress recognition as patient safety culture predicted staff exhaustion. Finally, comparing with the available institutional historic data in 2018, the COVID group scored higher on the working condition dimension of patient safety culture, but lower on the stress recognition dimension. The COVID group also scored higher on exhaustion. In the post-pandemic era, there seems to be an improvement on certain aspect of the patient safety culture among hospital staff, and the improvement is more prevalent for managers. However, exhaustion is also a poignant problem for all employees. These findings can inform hospital decision-makers in planning and implementing future improvements of patient safety culture and promoting employee well-being and resilience. Our findings also reveal directions for future research.

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“…This is important because the taboo of death also extends to "words taboo" and strongly contributes to grief stigmatization and disenfranchised grief symptoms. Also, although death rituals and mourning practices are highly dependent on the cultural context (5,36), the COVID-19 pandemic has created a global scenario with commonalities for people in all nations [i.e., (19,(37)(38)(39)(40)(41)(42)]. The most important commonalities are the psychological burden associated with confinement (43), the inability to say goodbye or to perform rituals according to believes and culture, and the measures of physical distancing, all of them considered risk factors for traumatic and disenfranchised grief in people with low resistance or resilience (19,35,44,45).…”

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An Ethnography Study of a Viral YouTube Educational Video in Ecuador: Dealing With Death and Grief in Times of COVID-19

Giménez-Llort

2021

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In Western societies, death is a social and educational taboo. Poor education about death and mourning processes and overprotective family and social attitudes move children away from death to avoid “unnecessary suffering.” The COVID-19 outbreak highlighted these shortcomings and the difficult management of grief's complexity under sudden and unexpected scenarios. The need for immediate and constant updates related to COVID-19 benefited from social media coverage's immediacy. The use of YouTube as a digital platform to disseminate/search for knowledge exploded, raising the need to conduct ethnographic studies to describe this community's people and culture and improve the booming social media's educational capacity and quality. The present virtual ethnography studied 255,862 YouTube views/users and their behavior related to “Vuela Mariposa, Vuela,” a children's story available online since 2009 (not monetized) about the cycle of life, death, and disenfranchised grief (not acknowledged by society) that went viral (+>999%) on May. To our knowledge, this case study is the first original research that explores the ethnography of (i) a viral video, (ii) on death and grief taboo topics, (iii) for prescholars, and (iv) before and during the COVID pandemic. The quantitative and qualitative analyses identified a change in the users' profiles, engagement, and feedback. During the previous 11 years, the users were 35–44 years old Mexican and Spanish women. Those in grief used narrative comments to explain their vital crisis and express their sorrow. In the pandemic, the analysis pointed to Ecuador as the virality geographical niche in a moment when the tragic scenarios in its streets were yet unknown. The timeline match with the official records confirmed the severity of their pandemic scenario. The viral video reached a broad population, with normal distribution for age, and including male gender. Engagement by non-subscribers, direct search (traffic sources), and mean visualization times suggested educational purposes as confirmed by the users' feedback with critical thinking referring to the cycle of life's meaning and societal mourning. For the youngest users, the video was part of academic assignments. The ethnography pointed at YouTube as a flexible education resource, immediately reaching diverse users, and being highly sensitive to critical events.

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Personality and Attitudes Confronting Death Awareness During the COVID-19 Outbreak in Italy and Spain

Cited by 18 publications

References 36 publications

The Relationship of Fear of Death Between Neuroticism and Anxiety During the Covid-19 Pandemic

The Relationship of Fear of Death Between Neuroticism and Anxiety During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Post-Pandemic Patient Safety Culture: A Case from a Large Metropolitan Hospital Group in Taiwan

An Ethnography Study of a Viral YouTube Educational Video in Ecuador: Dealing With Death and Grief in Times of COVID-19

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