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Resilient Nurses in the COVID-19 Compared With Non-COVID-19 Wards

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2022

Sulmaz Ghahramani ,
Kamran Bagheri Lankarani ,
Milad Ahmadi Marzaleh ,
Mohammad Sayari  and
Hekmatollah Moradi
Sulmaz Ghahramani
Affiliation:
Health Policy Research Center, Institute of Health, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
Kamran Bagheri Lankarani
Affiliation:
Health Policy Research Center, Institute of Health, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
Milad Ahmadi Marzaleh
Affiliation:
Department of Health in Disasters and Emergencies, School of Management and Medical Informatics, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
Mohammad Sayari
Affiliation:
Health Policy Research Center, Institute of Health, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
Hekmatollah Moradi*
Affiliation:
Department of Health in Disasters and Emergencies, School of Management and Medical Informatics, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
*
Corresponding author: Hekmatollah Moradi, Email: morad2063@yahoo.com.
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Abstract

Introduction:

Owing to daily exposure to high job stress, nurses need to use coping techniques. One of the coping strategies helping a person to cope with stressful situations effectively is resiliency skills. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to examine the factors related to nurses’ resiliency during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic.

Methods:

The resiliency of 288 nurses, 145 nurses from the COVID-19 wards , and 143 nurses from other wards were compared using 25-item Connor & Davidson Resilience Questionnaire. This study was conducted in 2021 in four referral hospitals at Shiraz.

Results:

The mean age of participants was 32 y. The average resilience score in the in the participants worked in COVID-19 wards was 95.30 for men and 87.72 for women, and in the non-COVID-19 wards was 85.82 for men and 88.48 for women. The mean resiliency scores of nurses working in COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 wards did not show a statistically significant difference. Factors affecting resilience included age, employment status, gender, and job expectancy.

Conclusions:

In this study, the resiliency of nurses working in COVID-19 wards did not differed from that of working in non-COVID-19 ones. This result should be further investigated and elaborated. Health policymakers should consider job expectation, gender, age, and employment status of nurses when making plans for future pandemics.

Keywords

ResiliencynursespandemicCOVID-19
Type
Original Research
Information
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 17 , 2023 , e351
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc.

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