Healthcare Professionals′ Feelings at Work during COVID−19 Pandemic

Samer Asad^*
*Correspondence: Samer Asad, Department of Nursing, School of Health and Welfare, Jonkoping University, Jonkoping, Sweden, Email:

Keywords

Health professional • Pandemic • Workplace

Introduction

The Covid sickness (Coronavirus) epidemic began in late December 2019, putting people's mental fortitude to the test in general and medical professionals in particular. It has significantly impacted the mental wellbeing of medical care workers as well as the health of numerous instances and deaths that have occurred throughout the world. Emergency clinics had limited access to resources during the beginning of the Covid epidemic, including empty beds, trained staff, personal defence equipment, and treatment protocols. Professional health workers who weren't prepared for a pandemic were influenced by these factors [1]. Despite a sense of guilt, feelings of vulnerability, alienation, and dejection increased. Numerous studies showed that medical services groups working in Coronavirus units and clinics faced significant stress due to the risk of disease, inadequate pollution protection, the need to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) for extended work hours, exhaustion, dissatisfaction, segregation, separation, and a lack of contact with families, fatigue, and managing patients with depressing emotions.

Literature Review

In spite of lacking training in infection management and having limited access to mental support during the Coronavirus, studies have shown that medical care groups faced strain, stress, side effects of melancholy, a sleeping problem, forswearing, wrath, and dread. As a result, 37.5% of miserable labourers, 41.9% of well-being labourers, and 33.9% of them had sleeping problems. More stress-related adverse effects were reported by medical carers than by other health workers. The review made the assumption that members who lacked adequate protective equipment in their well-being settings were more likely to cause emotional well-being problems. In addition, according to a focus by 330 health professionals, 235 of them (71.2%) had clinical anxiety, 88 (26.8%) had clinical depression, 113 (34.3%) had pressure, and 121 (36.7%) had post-awful pressure [2].

People are motivated to participate in particular adapting behaviours by seeing others demonstrate adapting under duress. Before making a decision, a person's motivation is what causes them to feel satisfied or disappointed. So, by regulating the evaluation or feeling of pressure, it may have an influence on strategies for handling particularly challenging situations. HCWs reported high levels of stress and close-to-home injury during the Coronavirus pandemic's primary outbreak, which affected their motivation and coping mechanisms [3].

Discussion

Stress is defined as a situation in which a person feels overwhelmingly large and has more demands than they can handle. If natural demands are deemed dangerous, a person evaluates their current adaptive capabilities to determine whether they believe they are capable of handling the stressor. Adaptation refers to the ideas and behaviours people use to deal with the internal and external demands of a distressing event. It is essential for medical professionals to have effective survival skills during pandemic flare-ups so they can protect themselves from infection and help prevent numerous stressrelated mental illnesses. Surveying the needs and psychological well-being condition of medical care employees during a pandemic flare-up at work is also important [4].

Despite this, there is a lack of information about the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on Palestinian medical care providers, including their thoughts, anxieties, and coping mechanisms. Palestinian healthcare professionals have the risk of causing problems with mental and psychological well-being since they are directly involved in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with the Coronavirus in hospitals and clinics. The challenges of accessing adequate protective equipment, the burden of work, the lack of medicines available, the risk of contracting a disease and being quarantined, the lack of involvement and preparation in transmittable disease boards, the rising number of cases and fatalities all increase the risk of psychological health issues that could harm the mental well-being of healthcare workers [5,6].

Conclusion

These findings show the necessity of providing supervision, mental guiding, and mediation to qualified healthcare professionals who work directly with Coronavirus patients in healthcare settings during the current pandemic or in the event of a future flare-up in order to increase flexibility and reduce reliance on families and other people for mental support. To assist HCWs in developing their adaptable strategies for coping with particularly challenging times and boost their motivation, policymakers and administrators can also offer training and provide mediations on how to adjust to pressure in pandemics. Last but not least, in order to reduce stress and hysteria among HCWs in the event of a pandemic, critical personal protective equipment like as gloves, alcoholbased hand sanitizers, facial coverings, disengagement suits, and face shields should be available.

Acknowledgement

None.

Conflict of Interest

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