Marital Status and Gender Differences as Key Determinants of COVID-19 Impact on Wellbeing, Job Satisfaction and Resilience in Health Care Workers and Staff Working in Academia in the UK During the First Wave of the Pandemic

Frontiers in Public Health

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Junjie Peng¹  Wing Han Wu¹  Georgia Doolan¹  Naila Choudhury²  Puja Mehta³  Ayesha Khatun¹  Laura Hennelly¹  Julian Henty⁴  Elizabeth C. Jury⁵  Lih-Mei Liao⁶  Coziana Ciurtin¹ 

[1] Division of Medicine, Centre for Adolescent Rheumatology Research, University College London;Medical School, University College London;Department of Medicine, Centre for Inflammation and Tissue Repair, University College London Respiratory, University College London;Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, St Mary's Hospital;Division of Medicine, Centre for Rheumatology Research, University College London;Women's Health Psychological Services, University College London

关键词: wellbeing;    job satisfaction;    resilience;    health care workers;    COVID-19 pandemic in the UK;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpubh.2022.928107

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Background The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented global public health crisis that continues to exert immense pressure on healthcare and related professional staff and services. The impact on staff wellbeing is likely to be influenced by a combination of modifiable and non-modifiable factors. Objectives The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the self-reported wellbeing, resilience, and job satisfaction of National Health Service (NHS) and university staff working in the field of healthcare and medical research. Methods We conducted a cross sectional survey of NHS and UK university staff throughout the COVID-19 pandemic between May-November 2020. The anonymous and voluntary survey was disseminated through social media platforms, and via e-mail to members of professional and medical bodies. The data was analyzed using descriptive and regression (R) statistics. Results The enjoyment of work and satisfaction outside of work was significantly negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic for all of staff groups independent of other variables. Furthermore, married women reporting significantly lower wellbeing than married men ( P = 0.028). Additionally, the wellbeing of single females was significantly lower than both married women and men ( P = 0.017 and P < 0.0001, respectively). Gender differences were also found in satisfaction outside of work, with women reporting higher satisfaction than men before the COVID-19 pandemic ( P = 0.0002). Conclusion Our study confirms that the enjoyment of work and general satisfaction of staff members has been significantly affected by the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Interestingly, being married appears to be a protective factor for wellbeing and resilience but the effect may be reversed for life satisfaction outside work. Our survey highlights the critical need for further research to examine gender differences using a wider range of methods.

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