Disease Perception and Coping with Emotional Distress During COVID-19 Pandemic: A Survey Among Medical Staff

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

CosminaIoana Bondor¹  CarmenMonica Pop²  MilenaAdina Man²  AnaFlorica Chis²  Andrei Lesan²  DoinaAdina Todea²  Ruxandra-Mioara Rajnoveanu²  NicoletaStefania Motoc²  Claudia Toma³  Elena Dantes⁴  OctaviaLuiza Necrelescu⁵  Ruxandra Puiu⁵ 

[1] Department of Biostatistics, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400012 Cluj-Napoca, Romania;Department of Medical Sciences—Pulmonology, Faculty of Medicine, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400012 Cluj-Napoca, Romania;Faculty of Medicine, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 020021 Bucharest, Romania;Faculty of Medicine, Ovidius University, 900740 Constanta, Romania;“Leon Daniello” Clinical Hospital of Pulmonology, 400332 Cluj-Napoca, Romania;

关键词: COVID-19;    emotional distress;    stress perception;    cognitive coping;   

DOI  :  10.3390/ijerph17134899

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, is a highly contagious infectious disease declared by the World Health Organization to be a pandemic and a global public health emergency. During outbreaks, health care workers are submitted to an enormous emotional burden as they must balance the fundamental “duty to treat” with their parallel duties to family and loved ones. The aims of our study were to evaluate disease perceptions, levels of stress, emotional distress, and coping strategies among medical staff (COVID-19 versus non-COVID-19 departments) in a tertiary pulmonology teaching hospital in the first month after the outbreak of COVID-19. One hundred and fifteen health care workers completed four validated questionnaires (the brief illness perception questionnaire, perceived stress scale, the profile of emotional distress emotional, and the cognitive coping evaluation questionnaire) that were afterwards interpreted by one psychologist. There was a high level of stress and psychological distress among health care workers in the first month after the pandemic outbreak. Interestingly, there were no differences between persons that worked in COVID-19 departments versus those working in non-COVID-19 departments. Disease perceptions and coping mechanisms were similar in the two groups. As coping mechanisms, refocusing on planning and positive reappraisal were used more than in the general population. There is no difference in disease perceptions, levels of stress, emotional distress, and coping strategies in medical staff handling COVID-19 patients versus those staff who were not handling COVID-19 patients in the first month after the pandemic outbreak.

【 授权许可】

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