Social support and professional networks of nurses and nursing technicians in coping with Covid-19: A sectional study in two Brazilian cities.
Among healthcare workers, nurses are at exceptionally considerable risk for contracting COVID-19. Regardless of professionals' level of education, Brazilian nursing is one of the healthcare occupations shouldering the highest levels of responsibility and workload. Social support networks to hea...
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| author | Helena Maria Scherloski Leal David Maria Rocineide Ferreira da Silva Magda Guimarães de Araújo Faria Tarciso Feijó da Silva Tatiana Cabral da Silva Ramos Marcus Vinicius Pereira-Silva |
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| description | Among healthcare workers, nurses are at exceptionally considerable risk for contracting COVID-19. Regardless of professionals' level of education, Brazilian nursing is one of the healthcare occupations shouldering the highest levels of responsibility and workload. Social support networks to health and nursing can be a strategy to reduce workload and stress and may contribute to implementing the activities and protecting workers' health. This study aimed to map and analyze social support networks at workplaces as informed by frontline nursing professionals working in healthcare units in the Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro and Fortaleza, capitals of the States of Rio de Janeiro and Ceará, respectively. This observational and cross-sectional study used an online data collection instrument based on social network analysis methodology. We recruited 163 participants in two reference services for health professionals suspected or with COVID-19 symptoms. The research question was: "Which category or categories of health professionals have supported you or other colleagues the most in the event of diagnosis or suspicion of COVID-19 among nursing categories? Data were organized by nursing category and city and analyzed through social network analysis using Ucinet©, generating graphs and centrality metrics. Results point to the central relevance of nursing categories in the workplace social support in the pandemic, followed by other health professional categories. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c2ffe1beb313439586bdf73aadd32e782023-01-26T05:31:56ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032023-01-01181e028035710.1371/journal.pone.0280357Social support and professional networks of nurses and nursing technicians in coping with Covid-19: A sectional study in two Brazilian cities.Helena Maria Scherloski Leal DavidMaria Rocineide Ferreira da SilvaMagda Guimarães de Araújo FariaTarciso Feijó da SilvaTatiana Cabral da Silva RamosMarcus Vinicius Pereira-SilvaAmong healthcare workers, nurses are at exceptionally considerable risk for contracting COVID-19. Regardless of professionals' level of education, Brazilian nursing is one of the healthcare occupations shouldering the highest levels of responsibility and workload. Social support networks to health and nursing can be a strategy to reduce workload and stress and may contribute to implementing the activities and protecting workers' health. This study aimed to map and analyze social support networks at workplaces as informed by frontline nursing professionals working in healthcare units in the Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro and Fortaleza, capitals of the States of Rio de Janeiro and Ceará, respectively. This observational and cross-sectional study used an online data collection instrument based on social network analysis methodology. We recruited 163 participants in two reference services for health professionals suspected or with COVID-19 symptoms. The research question was: "Which category or categories of health professionals have supported you or other colleagues the most in the event of diagnosis or suspicion of COVID-19 among nursing categories? Data were organized by nursing category and city and analyzed through social network analysis using Ucinet©, generating graphs and centrality metrics. Results point to the central relevance of nursing categories in the workplace social support in the pandemic, followed by other health professional categories.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280357 |
| spellingShingle | Helena Maria Scherloski Leal David Maria Rocineide Ferreira da Silva Magda Guimarães de Araújo Faria Tarciso Feijó da Silva Tatiana Cabral da Silva Ramos Marcus Vinicius Pereira-Silva Social support and professional networks of nurses and nursing technicians in coping with Covid-19: A sectional study in two Brazilian cities. PLoS ONE |
| title | Social support and professional networks of nurses and nursing technicians in coping with Covid-19: A sectional study in two Brazilian cities. |
| title_full | Social support and professional networks of nurses and nursing technicians in coping with Covid-19: A sectional study in two Brazilian cities. |
| title_fullStr | Social support and professional networks of nurses and nursing technicians in coping with Covid-19: A sectional study in two Brazilian cities. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Social support and professional networks of nurses and nursing technicians in coping with Covid-19: A sectional study in two Brazilian cities. |
| title_short | Social support and professional networks of nurses and nursing technicians in coping with Covid-19: A sectional study in two Brazilian cities. |
| title_sort | social support and professional networks of nurses and nursing technicians in coping with covid 19 a sectional study in two brazilian cities |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280357 |
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