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T1 Causes of Stress among Healthcare Professionals and Successful Hospital Management Approaches to Mitigate It during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study
A1 Herraiz-Recuenco, Lourdes
A1 Alonso Martínez, Laura
A1 Hannich-Schneider, Susanne
A1 Puente Alcaraz, Jesús
K1 COVID-19
K1 Hospital occupational health
K1 Management
K1 Mental stress
K1 Healthcare professionals
K1 Salud
K1 Health
K1 Psicología
K1 Psychology
K1 Enfermería
K1 Nursing
AB The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic posed an immediate challenge to the managementof hospitals in Germany and elsewhere. The risk of stress for front-line healthcare professionalsforced occupational health and safety units to adopt a variety of protective measures, not all ofwhich have been thoroughly validated. The main objective of the present analysis is to assesswhat the most important sources of stress were and which of the protective measures applied tocounteract stress among healthcare staff had the greatest impact. A better understanding of thesefactors will improve hospital management and worker safety in a future health crisis situation andmay also prove to be beneficial in non-crisis situations. For this purpose, in 2020, an exploratory,cross-sectional and quantitative study using a questionnaire created for this purpose was carriedout on a total of 198 professionals—133 nurses and 65 physicians—at the Klinikum MittelbadenBalg hospital in Baden-Baden, Germany, during the first wave of the pandemic. Statistical analysesshowed that nurses suffer more stress than physicians and that stress is higher among professionalsin critical care and emergency units than in units that are less exposed to infected patients. It wasalso found that measures such as salary incentives, encouragement of work in well-integrated teams,and perceived support from hospital management mitigate stress. These findings highlight theimportance of support measures from management and superiors. Knowing the actual effectivenessof the measures applied by management and the factors mentioned above could help to protecthealthcare professionals in the event of another pandemic or similar situations and may still be ofvalue in dealing with the continuing COVID-19 pandemic.
PB MDPI
YR 2022
FD 2022-10
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/7583
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/7583
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 26-abr-2024