Investigating the role of predictive death anxiety in the job satisfaction of pre-hospital emergency personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic

BMC Emergency Medicine

Research

Sajad Noorian¹  Soheil Soltani²  Saeed Rahmani²  Fatemeh Rashvand²  Mohadese Aliakbari²  Mostafa Amiri²  Najme Chegini³  Mojtaba Senmar⁴ 

[1] Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science, University of Qom, Qom, Iran;Emergency Medical Service Center, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran;Student Research Committee, Qazvin University Of Medical Science, Qazvin, Iran;Student Research Committee, Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Research Institute for Prevention of Non–Communicable Diseases, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran;

关键词: Job satisfaction;    Emergency medical service;    Anxiety;    COVID-19;    Death;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12873-022-00762-x

 received in 2022-10-13, accepted in 2022-12-02,  发布年份 2022

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundPre-hospital emergency staffs as the frontline forces fighting against COVID -19 have been affected by this pandemic. Today, the occupational and mental health of these individuals is particularly important to the health care system. Death anxiety is one of the inevitable things in this job, and not paying attention to it can cause unwanted effects such as changing the level of job satisfaction of the personnel. The purpose of this study was to determine the role of predictive death anxiety in the job satisfaction of pre-hospital emergency personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic.MethodsThis cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted among pre-hospital emergency staffs in Qazvin Province, Iran in 2021–2022. Among the bases chosen by the census method, 198 samples were included in the study by the available method. Data collection tools included the Demographic Checklist, Templer's Death Anxiety scale, and the Minnesota Job Satisfaction Questionnaire. The data were analyzed with descriptive and inferential statistics and SPSS 20 software.ResultsThe mean age of the samples was (33.14 ± 6.77). 167 persons were male and the others were female. The average job satisfaction and death anxiety of the personnel were 55.07 ± 11.50 and 8.18 ± 1.96, respectively. Pearson's correlation coefficient between the two variables was r = -0.126 And a null correlation coefficient hypothesis has been confirmed with p-value = 0.077.ConclusionsThe results showed a high level of death anxiety and average job satisfaction. Although these two variables do not have a significant relationship with each other, considering that they do not have the appropriate level, it needs more investigation and consideration.

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