Open AccessPSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS AND SUPPORT DEMAND OF SOCIAL WORKERS DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN VIETNAM
Author(s) -
Phạm Văn Tuấn
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of education, psychology and counseling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0128-164X
DOI - 10.35631/ijepc.644015
Subject(s) - social support , mental health , psychology , scale (ratio) , pandemic , psychological health , health care , clinical psychology , covid-19 , social psychology , disease , medicine , psychiatry , political science , physics , quantum mechanics , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law
The Covid-19 pandemic has had a strong impact on all aspects of social life, on the spiritual life of all social classes, thereby giving rise to the need for mental health care and support. This study was conducted on 171 social workers in public social institutions in Vietnam to investigate their psychological stress, influencing factors as well as their need for psychological support. Through using the DASS-42 scale and the scale designed by the research team, the survey results showed that 95.3% have psychological stress at different levels: 14% have mild stress, 32.7 % moderate, 37.4% severe, 11.1% very severe. The factors: job characteristics, working conditions, professional capacity, fear of disease and psychological support can explain 42.7% of the psychological stress of social workers. 39.8% of social workers said they needed psychological support. Organizations and societies need to pay attention to and deploy psychological support activities to take care of mental health in general and psychological stress in particular for social workers.