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Turkey’s research
Perceived Risk and Mental Health Problems among Healthcare Professionals during COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring the Mediating Effects of Resilience and Coronavirus Fear
Background
In Turkey, during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were high risks of healthcare professionals evolving signs of mental health complications because of them being on the frontline in fighting against the virus (Yıldırım, Arslan & Özaslan,2020). The research involved recruiting two hundred and four healthcare professionals, with 50 percent of the recruited being females with a minimum age of thirty-two. The purpose of the study was to examine the interceding roles of resilience and fear of coronavirus in the connection between mental health problems and perceived risk among all healthcare professionals treating patients nonstop. Method. The method used for the study is the participation method, and the participants were healthcare professionals who took the role of in the inpatient clinics, outpatients, and intensive care unit. Results. The results of the study showed that there was a significant perceived risk forecasted in coronavirus fear, but there was a non-important analyst of resilience. Coronavirus had a complete mediation on the consequence of supposed risk on resilience, and there was a 29 percent variation in coronavirus fear.
Italian research
Mental Health Conditions of Italian Healthcare Professionals during the COVID-19 Disease Outbreak
Background
The disease in Italy represented a risk in relation to mental distress. Therefore, there was a need to investigate the healthcare professionals’ psychological health during the pandemic outbreak (Bettinsoli et al.,2020). The research was based on assessing the current mental distress of the participants and the coping approaches during the virus outbreak. The front-liners were asked to report how they recall feeling before the outbreak. The purpose of the study was to examine the psychological condition of the medical personnel before and during the outbreak of coronavirus in Italy. The methods used were questionnaires and participation, and they distributed the questionnaires online to all healthcare personnel living in various Italian regions. Results. The research outcome showed that thirty-three percent of the healthcare professionals met the psychiatric indisposition threshold. After the study, it was found that the participants viewed their psychological conditions to have worsened during the coronavirus outbreak rather than before the outbreak. This perception was a fact among female health professionals.
Spanish research
Symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Levels of Resilience and Burnout in Spanish Health Personnel during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Background
Spain had the highest number of infected health workers with COVID-19 in the world. They aimed to analyze the posttraumatic stress, anxiety, and depression during the period of the virus (Yıldırım, Arslan & Özaslan,2020). They analyzed several associations such as burnout, work, and others on the variation of COVID-19—the purpose of the research. The purpose was to analyze the symptoms presented to health workers in Spain with posttraumatic stress, depression, and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods. Several methods were used during the examination, such as using participants who were the health workers. There was also measurement of variables and instruments. The researchers collected data through the use of demographic variables. Results. The study's findings were as follows; there were gender variations in the symptoms of the three disorders. There were differences in the depersonalization burnout scale between men and women. Women are mostly and positively linked to posttraumatic stress, anxiety, and depression, and age is negatively and significantly linked to the three symptoms.
Analysis & Conclusion
For discussion part
Both three studies had a similar objective and goal: to examine and analyze the mental health of healthcare personnel before and during the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. Both studies focused more on the mental well-being of female healthcare workers. Both three studies emphasized their research on how Covid-19 impacted the lives and the mental health of the health workers. Moreover, the three studies were focused on certain ages; not all health workers on the frontline were participants in the study. However, there were differences in the study with some similarities since these are three different countries. In Italy, their examinations were on the associations between psychological distress with mental health and perceptions of infection; in Spain, their analysis was based on associations between burnouts, resilience, demographics, and work with COVID-19 variables. In contrast, Turkey's examination was on the mediation roles of resilience and the fear of coronavirus relating to the perceived risk and the problems with their mental health.
Health personnel was greatly affected by the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic because they were on the frontline trying to save the lives of the infected people. It was a challenging time all over the world, and thus, cases of increasing mental health problems were widespread. Many health workers had these underlying issues before the pandemic, but witnessing people die before themselves increased the cases. They take care of people without having someone to take care of them; thus, the research was necessary, and if the results were used to improve their health, it would be better than just mere research.
References
2. Luceño-Moreno, L., Talavera-Velasco, B., García-Albuerne, Y., & Martín-García, J. (2020). Symptoms of posttraumatic stress, anxiety, depression, levels of resilience, and burnout in Spanish health personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic. International journal of environmental research and public health, 17(15), 5514.
3. Yıldırım, M., Arslan, G., & Özaslan, A. (2020). Perceived risk and mental health problems among healthcare professionals during COVID-19 pandemic: Exploring the mediating effects of resilience and coronavirus fear. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 1-11.
