Perceived Stress and Coping Styles among Healthcare Workers during the time of COVID-19, Arerti Town, North Shoa Zone
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2021-09
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Abstract
Coronavirus disease-2019 has been a global concern for the past one and half year
and still is expected to continue for the coming years. Health professionals, while
compared with the general public are influenced by it and have a higher risk of
acquiring the disease. It has been witnessed that there were interventions tried by
stakeholders to alleviate its consequence on health professionals but the most
important one is to understand how individuals are coping with the stress and
working to improve coping outcome. So, the aim of this study is to assess the level of
perceived stress and coping styles used to overcome the stress among health workers
during COVID-19 in Arerti town health facilities. The study used cross-sectional
survey design. Questionnaire was collected from all 216 health workers who were at
their work during data collection time by using a Brief COPE and Perceived Stress
scale-10. Analysis of the data includes descriptive statistics, bivariate and
multivariable logistic regression. The result showed that that the mean age was 28.6
± 5.09 SD, of them 102 (47.2%) are females. The prevalence of perceived stress
related to COVID-19 among health workers was 45.8% while the widely used coping
styles were religious coping and acceptance. Regression analysis showed factors such
as gender, work experience, humor, venting, behavioral disengagement and self blame were having association with perceived stress. Based on this result the
researcher can conclude that being female and having longer years of work
experience will make individuals more likely develop higher level of stress. In
addition to that, inclination to use more of humor, venting, behavioral disengagement,
and self-blame coping will likely make one experience high level of stress among
health workers in Arerti town health facilities.
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COVID-19, Health workers, coping Styles, Perceived Stress