Open AccessPsychological challenges encountered by health care professionals having a risk of accidental exposure and its impact on their wellbeing in a non-covid hospital during the prevailing pandemic
Author(s) -
Harsha Agarwal,
Vineet Talwar,
Sakshita Anand,
Varun Goel,
Nivedita Patnaik
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
international journal of health sciences (ijhs) (en línea)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2550-6978
pISSN - 2550-696X
DOI - 10.53730/ijhs.v6ns3.5486
Subject(s) - anxiety , pandemic , psychological intervention , accidental , health care , psychology , nonprobability sampling , covid-19 , workforce , accidental sampling , depression (economics) , nursing , medicine , clinical psychology , psychiatry , disease , environmental health , political science , population , physics , pathology , acoustics , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law , economics , macroeconomics
Health care professionals played and are still playing a crucial role in containing the spread of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV 2). While being a frontliner and saving the lives of patients, healthcare professionals (HCP’s) have encountered physical but varied levels and types of psychological challenges. Psychological challenges faced by HCP’s at covid care centres have been highlighted by many researches and publications. The purpose of this study was to highlight the psychological challenges encountered by HCP’s at a non-covid cancer care institute. A self-designed survey about psychological challenges (physical changes, anxiety, perceived fear, depression, awareness, and positivity) experienced by HCP’s with purposive sampling (Doctors) was conducted in a tertiary cancer care institute. Results revealed that fear and anxiety of getting infected and infecting their significant others was significantly high among HCP’s. To maintain an effective, encouraging, and motivating workforce, psychological interventions played a key role.