Title
Developing and testing a measure of COVID-19 organizational support of healthcare workers – results from Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia
Date Issued
01 September 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Zhang S.X.
Sun S.
Ibarra V.G.
Li J.
Patty-Tito R.M.
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Ireland Ltd
Abstract
During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers are facing high workloads with resource constraints and risk of virus exposure, and healthcare organizations need to support their healthcare workers to reduce their anxiety. Based on a recent 8-point framework of COVID-19 specific organization support, we devised a measure of COVID-19 Organizational Support (COVID-OS). We tested the new measure with 712 healthcare workers in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru and found the new measure formed three factors to predict healthcare workers’ anxiety and life satisfaction during the COVID-19 pandemic. We call for further studies to test COVID-OS in other countries and settings.
Volume
291
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Salud pública, Salud ambiental
Psicología
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85086759395
PubMed ID
Source
Psychiatry Research
ISSN of the container
01651781
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus