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The Experience of Health Care Workers Infected by Corona Virus Diseases-19
Author(s) -
Siti Rochanah,
Irma Nurbaeti
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
jurnal keperawatan padjadjaran
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2442-7276
pISSN - 2338-5324
DOI - 10.24198/jkp.v9i3.1664
Subject(s) - feeling , meaning (existential) , health care , interpretative phenomenological analysis , covid-19 , qualitative research , psychology , medicine , nursing , social psychology , disease , sociology , psychotherapist , pathology , social science , infectious disease (medical specialty) , economics , economic growth
Background. The number of healthcare workers in front line has affected by COVID-19 and some of them infected by COVID-19 since COVID-19 outbreak. Understanding healthcare workers experience is important to get their meaning and expression.  Purpose. The purpose this study was to explore the experiences of health workers infected by COVID-19. Methods. A Qualitative phenomenological approach was carried out in this study with phenomenological analysis for interpretation data. Data were collected using in-depth interviews of 12 health workers who were infected by COVID-19 either during their treatment or after being treated at non-government hospital in Jakarta, Indonesia. Results. We found five themes followed by fourteen subthemes. The themes were (1) The meaning of COVID-19 for her/his self, (2) The first feelings of being infected with COVID-19, (3) Experience of Clinical symptoms, (4) Experience of psychological and social disorders, (5) Experience in accessing health services. Conclusions. Health workers who infected by COVID-19 had some positive and negative experience. This research may provide a deep understanding about the life of health workers infected by COVID-19. Proper planning and support are important to reduce health workers’ problems both physical and psychological.

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