TY - JOUR
T1 - Developing and testing a measure of COVID-19 organizational support of healthcare workers – results from Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia
AU - Zhang, Stephen X.
AU - Sun, Shuhua
AU - Afshar Jahanshahi, Asghar
AU - Alvarez-Risco, Aldo
AU - Ibarra, Verónica García
AU - Li, Jizhen
AU - Patty-Tito, Ross Mary
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2020/9/1
Y1 - 2020/9/1
N2 - During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers are facing high workloads with resource constraints and risk of virus exposure, and healthcare organizations need to support their healthcare workers to reduce their anxiety. Based on a recent 8-point framework of COVID-19 specific organization support, we devised a measure of COVID-19 Organizational Support (COVID-OS). We tested the new measure with 712 healthcare workers in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru and found the new measure formed three factors to predict healthcare workers’ anxiety and life satisfaction during the COVID-19 pandemic. We call for further studies to test COVID-OS in other countries and settings.
AB - During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers are facing high workloads with resource constraints and risk of virus exposure, and healthcare organizations need to support their healthcare workers to reduce their anxiety. Based on a recent 8-point framework of COVID-19 specific organization support, we devised a measure of COVID-19 Organizational Support (COVID-OS). We tested the new measure with 712 healthcare workers in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru and found the new measure formed three factors to predict healthcare workers’ anxiety and life satisfaction during the COVID-19 pandemic. We call for further studies to test COVID-OS in other countries and settings.
KW - Anxiety
KW - Life satisfaction
KW - Pandemic
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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/3c89f8de-4531-3886-9641-39efd59daa38/
U2 - 10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113174
DO - 10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113174
M3 - Artículo (Contribución a Revista)
AN - SCOPUS:85086759395
SN - 0165-1781
VL - 291
JO - Psychiatry Research
JF - Psychiatry Research
M1 - 113174
ER -