Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2022 Nov 3:1-18. doi: 10.1017/dmp.2022.264. Online ahead of print.
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION: Owing to daily exposure to high job stress, nurses need to use coping techniques. One of the coping strategies helping a person to cope with stressful situations effectively is resiliency skills. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to examine the factors related to nurses’ resiliency during COVID-19 epidemic.
METHODS: The present study was cross-sectional and assessed the resiliency of 288 nurses working in the COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 wards was investigated. 25 items Connor & Davidson Resilience Questionnaire which scores the items between zero (completely incorrect) and five (always correct was used) was used for this end. This study was conducted in 2021 in four referral hospitals at Shiraz. In this study, nurses working in the COVID-19 care wards were selected as the study group and nurses in non-COVID-19 wards were selected as the control group.
RESULTS: The mean age of participants was 32. The average resilience score in the in the participants worked in COVID-19 wards was 95.30 for men and 87.72 for women, and in the non-COVID-19 wards was 85.82 for men and 88.48 for women. Factors affecting resilience included age, job status, gender and job expectancy. The results of the present study showed that the mean resiliency scores of nurses working in COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 wards did not show a statistically significant difference.
CONCLUSION: In this study Resiliency of nurses working in COVID-19 wards were not significantly differed from nurses of non-COVID-19 ones. This result should be further investigated and elaborated. With job planning regarding the employment and employment of nurses, considering their job expectation, gender, age and job status, we can be better prepared for future health system pandemics.
PMID:36325879 | DOI:10.1017/dmp.2022.264
