Quality of life among health care workers in Arab countries 2 years after COVID-19 pandemic
BackgroundAssessment of the quality of life (QoL) among healthcare workers (HCWs) is vital for better healthcare and is an essential indicator for competent health service delivery. Since the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic strike, the frontline position of HCWs subjected them to tremen...
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| author | Ramy Mohamed Ghazy Osman Abubakar Fiidow Fatimah Saed Alabd Abdullah Iffat Elbarazi Ismail Ibrahim Ismail Sulafa Tarek Alqutub Etwal Bouraad Etwal Bouraad Esraa Abdellatif Hammouda Mohamed Mostafa Tahoun Silmane Mehdad Rasha Ashmawy Abdulla Zamzam Osama Mohamed Elhassan Qasim Mohamed Al Jahdhami Hind Bouguerra Wafaa Kammoun Rebai Lina Yasin Esraa Mustafa Jaradat Yasir Ahmed Mohammed Elhadi Malik Sallam Malik Sallam Malik Sallam |
| author_facet | Ramy Mohamed Ghazy Osman Abubakar Fiidow Fatimah Saed Alabd Abdullah Iffat Elbarazi Ismail Ibrahim Ismail Sulafa Tarek Alqutub Etwal Bouraad Etwal Bouraad Esraa Abdellatif Hammouda Mohamed Mostafa Tahoun Silmane Mehdad Rasha Ashmawy Abdulla Zamzam Osama Mohamed Elhassan Qasim Mohamed Al Jahdhami Hind Bouguerra Wafaa Kammoun Rebai Lina Yasin Esraa Mustafa Jaradat Yasir Ahmed Mohammed Elhadi Malik Sallam Malik Sallam Malik Sallam |
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| description | BackgroundAssessment of the quality of life (QoL) among healthcare workers (HCWs) is vital for better healthcare and is an essential indicator for competent health service delivery. Since the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic strike, the frontline position of HCWs subjected them to tremendous mental and psychological burden with a high risk of virus acquisition.AimThis study evaluated the QoL and its influencing factors among HCWs residing in the Arab countries.MethodsThis was a cross-sectional study using a self-administered online questionnaire based on the World Health Organization QoL-BREF instrument with additional questions related to COVID-19. The study was conducted in three different languages (Arabic, English, and French) across 19 Arab countries between February 22 and March 24, 2022.ResultsA total of 3,170 HCWs were included in the survey. The majority were females (75.3%), aged 18–40 years (76.4%), urban residents (90.4%), married (54.5%), and were living in middle-income countries (72.0%). The mean scores of general health and general QoL were 3.7 ± 1.0 and 3.7 ± 0.9, respectively. Those who attained average physical, psychological, social, and environmental QoL were 40.8, 15.4, 26.2, and 22.3%, respectively. The income per capita and country income affected the mean scores of all QoL domains. Previous COVID-19 infection, having relatives who died of COVID-19, and being vaccinated against COVID-19 significantly affected the mean scores of different domains.ConclusionA large proportion of the Arab HCWs evaluated in this study had an overall poor QoL. More attention should be directed to this vulnerable group to ensure their productivity and service provision. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-477cc673a61342fc8f8d3bcd24b495e42022-12-22T02:40:01ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Public Health2296-25652022-11-011010.3389/fpubh.2022.917128917128Quality of life among health care workers in Arab countries 2 years after COVID-19 pandemicRamy Mohamed Ghazy0Osman Abubakar Fiidow1Fatimah Saed Alabd Abdullah2Iffat Elbarazi3Ismail Ibrahim Ismail4Sulafa Tarek Alqutub5Etwal Bouraad6Etwal Bouraad7Esraa Abdellatif Hammouda8Mohamed Mostafa Tahoun9Silmane Mehdad10Rasha Ashmawy11Abdulla Zamzam12Osama Mohamed Elhassan13Qasim Mohamed Al Jahdhami14Hind Bouguerra15Wafaa Kammoun Rebai16Lina Yasin17Esraa Mustafa Jaradat18Yasir Ahmed Mohammed Elhadi19Malik Sallam20Malik Sallam21Malik Sallam22Tropical Health Department, High Institute of Public Health, Alexandria University, Alexandria, EgyptSchool of Public Health and Research, Somali National University, Mogadishu, SomaliaInternal Medicine Department, Alexandria University, Alexandria, EgyptInstitute of Public Health, College of Medicine & Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab EmiratesDepartment of Neurology, Ibn Sina Hospital, Sabah Medical Region, Kuwait City, KuwaitDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi ArabiaDepartment of Epidemiology and Population Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, LebanonSchool of Pharmacy, Lebanese International University, Beirut, LebanonClinical Research Department, El-Raml Pediatric Hospital, Ministry of Health and Population, Alexandria, Egypt0Department of Epidemiology, High Institute of Public Health, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt1Research Centre in Genomics of Human Pathologies, Faculty of Science, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Rabat, Morocco2Department of Clinical Research, Maamoura Chest Hospital, MoHP, Alexandria, Egypt3Department of Pharmacy, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar4Quality & Accreditation, Federal Ministry of Health, Khartoum, Sudan5Ministry of Health, Muscat, Oman6Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia7Laboratory of Biomedical Genomics and Oncogenetics, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia8Ministry of Public Health and Population, Sanaa, Yemen9Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Palestine0Department of Public Health, Medical Research Office, Sudanese Medical Research Association, Khartoum, Sudan1Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Forensic Medicine, School of Medicine, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan2Department of Clinical Laboratories and Forensic Medicine, Jordan University Hospital, Amman, Jordan3Department of Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, SwedenBackgroundAssessment of the quality of life (QoL) among healthcare workers (HCWs) is vital for better healthcare and is an essential indicator for competent health service delivery. Since the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic strike, the frontline position of HCWs subjected them to tremendous mental and psychological burden with a high risk of virus acquisition.AimThis study evaluated the QoL and its influencing factors among HCWs residing in the Arab countries.MethodsThis was a cross-sectional study using a self-administered online questionnaire based on the World Health Organization QoL-BREF instrument with additional questions related to COVID-19. The study was conducted in three different languages (Arabic, English, and French) across 19 Arab countries between February 22 and March 24, 2022.ResultsA total of 3,170 HCWs were included in the survey. The majority were females (75.3%), aged 18–40 years (76.4%), urban residents (90.4%), married (54.5%), and were living in middle-income countries (72.0%). The mean scores of general health and general QoL were 3.7 ± 1.0 and 3.7 ± 0.9, respectively. Those who attained average physical, psychological, social, and environmental QoL were 40.8, 15.4, 26.2, and 22.3%, respectively. The income per capita and country income affected the mean scores of all QoL domains. Previous COVID-19 infection, having relatives who died of COVID-19, and being vaccinated against COVID-19 significantly affected the mean scores of different domains.ConclusionA large proportion of the Arab HCWs evaluated in this study had an overall poor QoL. More attention should be directed to this vulnerable group to ensure their productivity and service provision.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.917128/fullhealthcare providershealth personnelsatisfactionprofessional quality of lifeCOVID-19 |
| spellingShingle | Ramy Mohamed Ghazy Osman Abubakar Fiidow Fatimah Saed Alabd Abdullah Iffat Elbarazi Ismail Ibrahim Ismail Sulafa Tarek Alqutub Etwal Bouraad Etwal Bouraad Esraa Abdellatif Hammouda Mohamed Mostafa Tahoun Silmane Mehdad Rasha Ashmawy Abdulla Zamzam Osama Mohamed Elhassan Qasim Mohamed Al Jahdhami Hind Bouguerra Wafaa Kammoun Rebai Lina Yasin Esraa Mustafa Jaradat Yasir Ahmed Mohammed Elhadi Malik Sallam Malik Sallam Malik Sallam Quality of life among health care workers in Arab countries 2 years after COVID-19 pandemic Frontiers in Public Health healthcare providers health personnel satisfaction professional quality of life COVID-19 |
| title | Quality of life among health care workers in Arab countries 2 years after COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_full | Quality of life among health care workers in Arab countries 2 years after COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_fullStr | Quality of life among health care workers in Arab countries 2 years after COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_full_unstemmed | Quality of life among health care workers in Arab countries 2 years after COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_short | Quality of life among health care workers in Arab countries 2 years after COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_sort | quality of life among health care workers in arab countries 2 years after covid 19 pandemic |
| topic | healthcare providers health personnel satisfaction professional quality of life COVID-19 |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.917128/full |
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