Home⇛The PCMC Journal⇛vol. 19 no. 1 (2023)

Resilience among Pediatric healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in a tertiary hospital

Maria Yasmin S. Kalaw | Soraya A. Alvarado

Discipline: medicine by specialism

 

Abstract:

Objectives: Healthcare-workers are at the center of the pandemic, dealing with cases while being at risk of acquiring the infection themselves, causing work-related stress. Despite this, they continue reporting for duty. This paper aims to determine the factors that affect resilience of pediatric healthcare-workers in close contact with patients suspected with COVID infection and its association to sleeping disturbance during the first two years of COVID – 19 pandemic in a tertiary hospital in the Philippines. Methodology: This is a cross-sectional study. Healthcare-workers who render bedside patient care for those suspected or with COVID-19 infection, not diagnosed with any mental health illness, and fit the inclusion criteria were chosen through purposive sampling and asked to answer questionnaires with demographic survey, BRS and PSQI tool. Results: Among 89 participants, females were predominant (60.67%). Majority were in the 30-39 age group (44.94%) and are nurses (40.45%) or doctors (39.33%) who were single (76.40%). Many have normal resilience as measured from their BRS scores with an average PSQI per category equal to or exceeded 5.00. The correlation coefficient was at -0.338 (p-value 0.001) between the BRS and PSQI scores, indicating that a significant negative correlation exists between the two scores. Conclusion: Normal resilience was reported in the majority of the healthcare-workers. All study participants had poor sleep quality as determined in the overall average PSQI score. A negative correlation between resilience and sleep quality was observed, denoting that poor sleep quality can be associated with lower resilience, and vice versa. However, temporality cannot be assumed with this study.



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