Pandemic management impacts Slovak health care workers' quality of life during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic led to accepting a lot of various protective pandemic management-related measures (PanMan), which may have had a large impact on health care workers (HCWs) but evidence is scarce. We therefore explored the impact of measures during the second wave. We assessed the associations of PanMan with the Quality of Life (QoL) of hospital HCWs.

Methods

We collected data from 215 HCWs (77.7% females, mean age 44.4), who were working at the COVID-related departments of one large hospital in eastern Slovakia via a questionnaire, specifically developed in direct collaboration with them. We assessed PanMan related factors, such as COVID-19 experience, information overload, non-adherence of the public, work stress, barriers and facilitators of health care pr

SUBMITTER: Pacutova V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10062551 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature