The COVID-19 Pandemic from the Health Workers’ Perspective: Between Health Emergency and Personal Crisis

ABSTRACT: Different scholars have emphasised the psychological distress experienced by health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic; however, there are almost no qualitative studies and we know very little about the everyday experience of this group. The present study’s goal was to explore how health workers interpreted the meaning of the pandemic crisis in their life. An online survey was available during the Italian lockdown. Respondents were asked to write a passage about the meaning of living in the time of COVID-19. A total number of 130 questionnaires (M = 42.35; DS = 10.52; women: 56.2%) were collected. The Automated Method for Content Analysis (ACASM) procedure was applied to the collected texts to detect the factorial dimensions underpinning (dis)similarities in the respondents’ narratives.

SUBMITTER: Marinaci T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8220108 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature