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Paydar S, Molavi Z, Kheiri R, Fazlizadeh S, Mohammadi M A. The Relationship between Challenges to Deal with COVID-19 and Caring Behaviors of Nurses. JHC 2024; 26 (1) :76-86
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, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences
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Background: COVID-19 has caused various challenges in the social, political and economic fields. To stay safe from complications of the disease, proper and quality care is important. Nurses' understanding of caring behaviors and the factors that influence them will play an important role in the quality of care and ultimately the society health. Therefore, this study was conducted with the aim of determining the relationship between challenges to deal with COVID-19 and caring behaviors of nurses in Ardabil City.
Methods: This is a correlational descriptive study involving 384 nurses working at Ardabil educational hospitals in 2022 using convenient sampling method. Data were collected through a three-part electronic questionnaire on demographic characteristics, Wolff et al. caring behavior and challenges to deal with COVID-19 questionnaires. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (frequency, mean and standard deviation) and analytical statistics (one-sample t-test, independent t-test, ANOVA and linear regression) using SPSS-26.
Results: The results showed that the mean score of the challenges to deal with COVID-19 from the nurses' point of view was 121.91±17.16. The most important challenge was related to the subscale of human resources (4.52±0.74). The mean score of nurses' caring behaviors was 196.92±46.74. Mean score of physical care dimension (4.86±0.06) was more than psychological dimension (4.64±0.15) and this difference was statistically significant. There was a positive significant correlation between challenges to deal with COVID-19 and caring behaviors of nurses (p=0.03, r=0.10). Furthermore, there was a positive significant relationship between dimensions of challenges to deal with COVID-19 (including comprehensive planning of coping, facilities of coping, financial issues of coping, education and social issues and human resources) and caring behaviors of nurses (p<.001). The linear regression model showed the variable of human resources predicts 5% of the variance of nurses' caring behaviors (p<0.001).
Conclusion: The results revealed that the increase of challenges to deal with COVID-19 score results in increased score of caring behaviors in nurses. That shows nurses consider working in difficult and dangerous situations as part of their professional role and duty. Therefore, it is suggested to improve the caring behaviors during the epidemic through overcoming the human resource shortages, empowering and educating personnel and paying attention to the physical and psychological aspects of care.
Methods: This is a correlational descriptive study involving 384 nurses working at Ardabil educational hospitals in 2022 using convenient sampling method. Data were collected through a three-part electronic questionnaire on demographic characteristics, Wolff et al. caring behavior and challenges to deal with COVID-19 questionnaires. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (frequency, mean and standard deviation) and analytical statistics (one-sample t-test, independent t-test, ANOVA and linear regression) using SPSS-26.
Results: The results showed that the mean score of the challenges to deal with COVID-19 from the nurses' point of view was 121.91±17.16. The most important challenge was related to the subscale of human resources (4.52±0.74). The mean score of nurses' caring behaviors was 196.92±46.74. Mean score of physical care dimension (4.86±0.06) was more than psychological dimension (4.64±0.15) and this difference was statistically significant. There was a positive significant correlation between challenges to deal with COVID-19 and caring behaviors of nurses (p=0.03, r=0.10). Furthermore, there was a positive significant relationship between dimensions of challenges to deal with COVID-19 (including comprehensive planning of coping, facilities of coping, financial issues of coping, education and social issues and human resources) and caring behaviors of nurses (p<.001). The linear regression model showed the variable of human resources predicts 5% of the variance of nurses' caring behaviors (p<0.001).
Conclusion: The results revealed that the increase of challenges to deal with COVID-19 score results in increased score of caring behaviors in nurses. That shows nurses consider working in difficult and dangerous situations as part of their professional role and duty. Therefore, it is suggested to improve the caring behaviors during the epidemic through overcoming the human resource shortages, empowering and educating personnel and paying attention to the physical and psychological aspects of care.
Type of Study: correlation design |
Subject:
nursing
Received: 2023/04/5 | Accepted: 2024/03/29 | Published: 2024/03/29
Received: 2023/04/5 | Accepted: 2024/03/29 | Published: 2024/03/29
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