Resilience among pediatric healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in a tertiary hospital.
- Author:
Maria Yasmin Soriano Kalaw
;
Soraya A. Alvarado
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
resilience;
sleep disturbance;
pediatric healthcare workers
- MeSH:
COVID-19
- From:
The Philippine Children’s Medical Center Journal
2023;19(1):36-46
- CountryPhilippines
- Language:English
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Abstract:
OBJECTIVES:Healthcare workers are at the center of the pandemic, dealing with cases while being at
risk of acquiring the infection themselves, causing work-related stress. Despite this, they continue
reporting for duty. This paper aims to determine the factors that affect resilience of pediatric
healthcare-workers in close contact with patients suspected with COVID infection and its association
to sleeping disturbance during the first two years of COVID – 19 pandemic in a tertiary hospital in
the Philippines.
METHODOLOGY:This is a cross-sectional study. Healthcare-workers who render bedside patient care
for those suspected or with COVID-19 infection, not diagnosed with any mental health illness, and
fit the inclusion criteria were chosen through purposive sampling and asked to answer questionnaires
with demographic survey, BRS and PSQI tool.
RESULTS:Among 89 participants, females were predominant (60.67% ). Majority were in the 30-
39 age group (44.94%) and are nurses (40.45%) or doctors (39.33%) who were single (76.40%).
Many have normal resilience as measured from their BRS scores with an average PSQI per category
equal to or exceeded 5.00. The correlation coefficient was at -0.338 (p-value 0.001) between the
BRS and PSQI scores, indicating that a significant negative correlation exists between the two
scores.
CONCLUSION:Normal resilience was reported in the majority of the healthcare workers. All study
participants had poor sleep quality as determined in the overall average PSQI score. A negative correlation between resilience and sleep quality was observed, denoting that poor sleep quality can be
associated with lower resilience, and vice versa. However, temporality cannot be assumed with this
study.
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