Clinicians’ Social Support, Job Stress, and Intent to Leave Healthcare during COVID-19
The onset of COVID-19 has escalated healthcare workers’ psychological distress. Multiple factors, including prolonged exposure to COVID-19 patients, irregular working hours, and workload, have substantially contributed to stress and burnout among healthcare workers. To explore the impact of COVID-19...
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| author | Ayhan Tabur Avishek Choudhury Abdurrahim Emhan Cengiz Mengenci Onur Asan |
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| description | The onset of COVID-19 has escalated healthcare workers’ psychological distress. Multiple factors, including prolonged exposure to COVID-19 patients, irregular working hours, and workload, have substantially contributed to stress and burnout among healthcare workers. To explore the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare workers, our study compares the job stress, social support, and intention to leave the job among healthcare workers working in a pandemic (H<sub>P</sub>) and a non-pandemic hospital (H<sub>NP</sub>) in Turkey during the pandemic. The cross-sectional, paper-based survey involved 403 healthcare workers including physicians, registered nurses, health technicians, and auxiliary staff across two hospitals from 1 September 2020 to 31 November 2020. The findings indicate a significant impact of ‘Job stress’ on ‘Intent to leave’ job among participants in the H<sub>P</sub>. We noted that ‘intent to leave’ and ‘job stress’ were significantly higher among the H<sub>P</sub> healthcare workers than those working in the H<sub>NP,</sub> respectively. However, workers’ ‘social support’ was significantly lower in the H<sub>P</sub>. Healthcare workers, during COVID-19, face several hurdles such as job stress, reduced social support, and excessive workload, all of which are potential factors influencing a care provider’s intent to leave the job. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1ec690ecf40148e3a542af12ec7759e22023-11-23T20:08:30ZengMDPI AGHealthcare2227-90322022-01-0110222910.3390/healthcare10020229Clinicians’ Social Support, Job Stress, and Intent to Leave Healthcare during COVID-19Ayhan Tabur0Avishek Choudhury1Abdurrahim Emhan2Cengiz Mengenci3Onur Asan4Emergency Department, Gazi Yaşargil Training and Research Hospital, Diyarbakir 21070, TurkeyStevens Institute of Technology, School of Systems and Enterprises, Hoboken, NJ 07030, USACollage of Business Administration, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USADepartment of Quality, Bower Hospital, Diyarbakir 21100, TurkeyStevens Institute of Technology, School of Systems and Enterprises, Hoboken, NJ 07030, USAThe onset of COVID-19 has escalated healthcare workers’ psychological distress. Multiple factors, including prolonged exposure to COVID-19 patients, irregular working hours, and workload, have substantially contributed to stress and burnout among healthcare workers. To explore the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare workers, our study compares the job stress, social support, and intention to leave the job among healthcare workers working in a pandemic (H<sub>P</sub>) and a non-pandemic hospital (H<sub>NP</sub>) in Turkey during the pandemic. The cross-sectional, paper-based survey involved 403 healthcare workers including physicians, registered nurses, health technicians, and auxiliary staff across two hospitals from 1 September 2020 to 31 November 2020. The findings indicate a significant impact of ‘Job stress’ on ‘Intent to leave’ job among participants in the H<sub>P</sub>. We noted that ‘intent to leave’ and ‘job stress’ were significantly higher among the H<sub>P</sub> healthcare workers than those working in the H<sub>NP,</sub> respectively. However, workers’ ‘social support’ was significantly lower in the H<sub>P</sub>. Healthcare workers, during COVID-19, face several hurdles such as job stress, reduced social support, and excessive workload, all of which are potential factors influencing a care provider’s intent to leave the job.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/10/2/229COVID-19occupational stresssocial supportworkloadburnout |
| spellingShingle | Ayhan Tabur Avishek Choudhury Abdurrahim Emhan Cengiz Mengenci Onur Asan Clinicians’ Social Support, Job Stress, and Intent to Leave Healthcare during COVID-19 Healthcare COVID-19 occupational stress social support workload burnout |
| title | Clinicians’ Social Support, Job Stress, and Intent to Leave Healthcare during COVID-19 |
| title_full | Clinicians’ Social Support, Job Stress, and Intent to Leave Healthcare during COVID-19 |
| title_fullStr | Clinicians’ Social Support, Job Stress, and Intent to Leave Healthcare during COVID-19 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Clinicians’ Social Support, Job Stress, and Intent to Leave Healthcare during COVID-19 |
| title_short | Clinicians’ Social Support, Job Stress, and Intent to Leave Healthcare during COVID-19 |
| title_sort | clinicians social support job stress and intent to leave healthcare during covid 19 |
| topic | COVID-19 occupational stress social support workload burnout |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/10/2/229 |
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