What the COVID-19 pandemic tells us about the need to develop resilience in the nursing workforce

Duncan, Debbie

doi:10.7748/nm.2020.e1933

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“…Social support, personal resilience, and adequate coping skills have been identi ed as vital personal resources to effectively manage and bounce back from stressful situations such as disease outbreaks and disasters (Duncan, 2020). In this study, a higher level of emotional loneliness was attributed to lower scores in the personal resilience category, while a higher level of social loneliness was attributed to lower scores in the coping and social support categories, suggesting the importance of building individual resilience and coping behaviours and enhancing social support to combat the negative psychological and mental effects of disease control protocols such as the home quarantine, social distancing, and lockdown measures during the pandemic.…”

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Social and emotional loneliness among college students during the COVID-19 pandemic: the predictive role of coping behaviours, social support, and personal resilience

Labrague

Falguera

2020

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Background: The mandatory lockdown imposed by the government to curb the transmission of coronavirus disease or COVID-19 has significantly disrupted social activities among student nurses, making them vulnerable to loneliness and social isolation. Objective: To determine the relative influence of coping behaviours, personal resilience, and social support on student nurses’ emotional and social loneliness during the pandemic.Methods: A cross-sectional research design was utilised to gather data from 261 student nurses from the Central Philippines using the Loneliness Scale, the Brief Resilience Scale, the Coping Behaviour Questionnaire, and the Perceived Social Support Questionnaire through an online survey. Results: The majority or 89.27% (n = 233) of student nurses experienced moderate to severe levels of loneliness during the lockdown. Age (younger age) (β = -0.168, p = 0.005) and social support (β = -0.176, p = 0.014) predicted emotional resilience, while gender (being female) (β = 0.109, p = 0.045), personal resilience (β = -0.214, p < 0.001), and coping behaviours (β = -0.455, p < 0.001) predicted social loneliness.Conclusions: Loneliness among student nurses was high during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Personal resilience, coping behaviours, and social support were identified as protective factors against loneliness. Empirically tested interventions and strategies directed towards increasing personal resilience, social support, and coping behaviours may help decrease emotional and social loneliness caused by the mandatory lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Social and emotional loneliness among college students during the COVID-19 pandemic: the predictive role of coping behaviours, social support, and personal resilience

Labrague

Falguera

2020

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“…Available studies identified the protective role of personal resilience in nurses during disaster events (Labrague, Hammad, et al, 2018;Turner, 2015) and disease outbreak (Duncan, 2020), suggesting that strengthening nurses' levels of hardiness and coping abilities can help them manage and deal with stressful situations effectively.…”

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COVID‐19 anxiety among front‐line nurses: Predictive role of organisational support, personal resilience and social support

2020

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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is a substantial health burden that has major implications for public health globally. COVID-19 is a pneumonia-like disease caused by a novel coronavirus that emerged in the Province of Wuhan in China in November 2019. Worldwide, confirmed cases of the disease had reached 14,348,858 as of 23 July 2020, while in the Western Pacific Region, the confirmed cases had climbed to 263,565. Moreover, at this time, there were 603,691 confirmed deaths due to COVID-19, and confirmed cases had been reported in more than 200 countries. The United States, Brazil, India and Russia remain the countries with the highest

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“…However, during the COVID-19 epidemic, there has been intense and long-lasting exposure to these factors, leading both health and emergency workers to develop the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or secondary trauma (STS). Research has shown that healthcare workers can develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following events such as SARS and MERS outbreaks [4][5][6][7], occasionally with a late onset after the end of the emergency [8].…”

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“…Being exposed to negative events is normally associated with negative thoughts and emotions that can have negative consequences, especially on mental health [4][5][6]. However, studies on traumatic stress conducted in recent years in emergency healthcare have found that traumatic events may also be associated with positive changes after trauma and, therefore, may be perceived as a spur to personal growth [22].…”

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Hardiness, Stress and Secondary Trauma in Italian Healthcare and Emergency Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Emergency situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic can lead healthcare and emergency workers to undergo severe stress reactions that increase the risk of developing secondary trauma. Hardiness is a protective factor that reduces the likelihood of negative outcomes such as secondary trauma. In this study, we analyzed the responses to physical, emotional, cognitive, organizational‒relational and COVID-19 stress of 140 healthcare and 96 emergency workers. Decision-making difficulties due to high uncertainty and the fear of contracting the virus and infecting others were also considered. We aimed to detect which stressors caused secondary trauma and to assess the protective power of hardiness. Participants completed the questionnaire online measuring stress, secondary trauma and resilience. We performed a t-test, correlational analysis and hierarchical regression. The healthcare workers had higher levels of stress and arousal than the emergency workers group and those involved in the treatment of COVID-19 were exposed to a large degree of stress and were at high risk of developing secondary trauma. Commitment is associated with high levels of stress, arousal and intrusion, while control shows a protective function. Stress and hardiness result in 37% and 17% of the variance of arousal and intrusion, respectively.

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What the COVID-19 pandemic tells us about the need to develop resilience in the nursing workforce

Cited by 114 publications

References 59 publications

Social and emotional loneliness among college students during the COVID-19 pandemic: the predictive role of coping behaviours, social support, and personal resilience

Social and emotional loneliness among college students during the COVID-19 pandemic: the predictive role of coping behaviours, social support, and personal resilience

COVID‐19 anxiety among front‐line nurses: Predictive role of organisational support, personal resilience and social support

Hardiness, Stress and Secondary Trauma in Italian Healthcare and Emergency Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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