Analyzing the Stressors for Frontline Soldiers Fighting Against Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT: This study aimed to analyze stressors to which medical staff is vulnerable due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. It also imposes a hierarchy on complex relations among stressors for excavating underlying structure and builds a model of interrelationships contrasting reality. The design of this study comprises a literature survey, data collection from primary sources, and analysis. Stressors have been explored from within current published/unpublished literature and validated by experts through approval vote. Data were collected from the focus group (panel of experts), and interpretive structural modeling (ISM) was used as the research methodology. Findings of ISM are avowed through "cross-impact matrix multiplication applied to classification" (MICMAC) analysis. As a res

SUBMITTER: Shaukat MZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8636429 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature