Coping Strategies among Healthcare Workers Directly Involved in Coronavirus Disease-2019 Care in a Tertiary Care Hospital in India
Background: The pandemic of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) has put healthcare workers (HCWs) under the immense pressure of providing care to a large number of patients with the risk of getting infected. This has resulted in the rise of severe mental health issues in them and coping with such de...
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| author | Ridhima Bhatia Ragul Ganesh Yudhyavir Singh Nishant Patel Shailender Kumar Richa Aggarwal Anjan Trikha |
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| description | Background: The pandemic of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) has put healthcare workers (HCWs) under the immense pressure of providing care to a large number of patients with the risk of getting infected. This has resulted in the rise of severe mental health issues in them and coping with such deep stress needs certain strategies.
Aim: A study was used to evaluate the coping techniques adopted by the HCWs to deal with COVID-19-related stress.
Methods: A 28-item Brief-coping orientation to problems experienced (COPE) questionnaire-based cross-sectional survey was used with the HCWs directly involved in the care of COVID-19 patients in September 2020 during the peak of the first COVID-19 wave and coping strategies were analyzed as continuous variables.
Result: A total of 221 HCWs completed the questionnaire of which 166 (75%) were doctors. The mean scores for adaptive strategies and maladaptive strategies were 41.56 (9.04) and 21.41 (5.6), respectively. The most employed coping strategy was acceptance (6.35 ± 1.6) and the least was substance abuse (2.33 ± 0.9).
Conclusion: Of all the coping strategies, adaptive strategies were the most employed. However, females and young ones employed maladaptive strategies, indicating the need for necessary attention in them. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-7f84d529e64f46c59b3bfa783a2d50292025-08-20T02:17:45ZengJaypee Brothers Medical PublisherIndian Journal of Private Psychiatry2319-53632583-40102023-02-011714910.5005/jp-journals-10067-01262Coping Strategies among Healthcare Workers Directly Involved in Coronavirus Disease-2019 Care in a Tertiary Care Hospital in IndiaRidhima Bhatia0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0084-1948Ragul Ganesh1Yudhyavir Singh2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5101-7609Nishant Patel3https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9376-4963Shailender Kumar4https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1140-5444Richa Aggarwal5Anjan Trikha6https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6001-8486Department of Anaesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, IndiaDepartment of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, IndiaYudhyavir Singh, Department of Anaesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, Phone: +91 9811140057Department of Anaesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, IndiaDepartment of Anaesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, IndiaDepartment of Critical and Intensive Care, Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Center, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, IndiaDepartment of Anaesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, IndiaBackground: The pandemic of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) has put healthcare workers (HCWs) under the immense pressure of providing care to a large number of patients with the risk of getting infected. This has resulted in the rise of severe mental health issues in them and coping with such deep stress needs certain strategies. Aim: A study was used to evaluate the coping techniques adopted by the HCWs to deal with COVID-19-related stress. Methods: A 28-item Brief-coping orientation to problems experienced (COPE) questionnaire-based cross-sectional survey was used with the HCWs directly involved in the care of COVID-19 patients in September 2020 during the peak of the first COVID-19 wave and coping strategies were analyzed as continuous variables. Result: A total of 221 HCWs completed the questionnaire of which 166 (75%) were doctors. The mean scores for adaptive strategies and maladaptive strategies were 41.56 (9.04) and 21.41 (5.6), respectively. The most employed coping strategy was acceptance (6.35 ± 1.6) and the least was substance abuse (2.33 ± 0.9). Conclusion: Of all the coping strategies, adaptive strategies were the most employed. However, females and young ones employed maladaptive strategies, indicating the need for necessary attention in them.https://www.ijiapp.com/doi/IJPP/pdf/10.5005/jp-journals-10067-0126adaptivecoronavirus disease-2019maladaptivemental healthstressyoung doctors |
| spellingShingle | Ridhima Bhatia Ragul Ganesh Yudhyavir Singh Nishant Patel Shailender Kumar Richa Aggarwal Anjan Trikha Coping Strategies among Healthcare Workers Directly Involved in Coronavirus Disease-2019 Care in a Tertiary Care Hospital in India Indian Journal of Private Psychiatry adaptive coronavirus disease-2019 maladaptive mental health stress young doctors |
| title | Coping Strategies among Healthcare Workers Directly Involved in Coronavirus Disease-2019 Care in a Tertiary Care Hospital in India |
| title_full | Coping Strategies among Healthcare Workers Directly Involved in Coronavirus Disease-2019 Care in a Tertiary Care Hospital in India |
| title_fullStr | Coping Strategies among Healthcare Workers Directly Involved in Coronavirus Disease-2019 Care in a Tertiary Care Hospital in India |
| title_full_unstemmed | Coping Strategies among Healthcare Workers Directly Involved in Coronavirus Disease-2019 Care in a Tertiary Care Hospital in India |
| title_short | Coping Strategies among Healthcare Workers Directly Involved in Coronavirus Disease-2019 Care in a Tertiary Care Hospital in India |
| title_sort | coping strategies among healthcare workers directly involved in coronavirus disease 2019 care in a tertiary care hospital in india |
| topic | adaptive coronavirus disease-2019 maladaptive mental health stress young doctors |
| url | https://www.ijiapp.com/doi/IJPP/pdf/10.5005/jp-journals-10067-0126 |
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