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Global Health Workforce Resilience during COVID-19 Pandemic
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Global Health Workforce Resilience during COVID-19 Pandemic

A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Coronaviruses (CoV) and COVID-19 Pandemic".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 3520

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Prof. Dr. Liaquat Hossain

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1. Nebraska Healthcare Collaborative Chair of Population Health Data Science Chairperson, Department of Cyber Systems, College of Business and Technology, The University of Nebraska at Kearney, Kearney, NE 68849, USA
2. Education Committee, Center for Intelligent Health Care, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-5506, USA
3. Visiting Professor, Department of Informatics, School of Economics and Management, Lund University, SE-22363 Lund, Sweden
Interests: complex systems; social networks; evolutionary systems; information flow; self organisation; bio-security; epidemics and public health interventions
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Dear Colleague,

Goal: The COVID-19 pandemic presents us with significant challenges which are bio-psycho-social dealing with not only the vaccine, treatment and contact tracing protocol, consistent and coherent messaging to population about safety, but also supporting the resilience of healthcare workforce for effective and efficient functioning in delivering healthcare outcomes for diverse affected population. Health officials don't have enough information to make informed decisions regarding the mental and psychological welfare of frontline health workforce during major catastrophic events. In order to support the frontline healthcare workforce, real-time data which is available in different social media platforms in which healthcare workers often voice their professional and personal concern is not reaching the appropriate channels forcing public health administrators to make uninformed decisions due to a lack of knowledge and poor communication across local, state, and national agencies. The development of a real-time social resilience data platform in capturing health workforce psycho-social challenges and further creation of an analytical toolkit for analyzing health workforce psychology will enable us to develop computational models for health workforce resilience as an analytical and predictive tool for exploring the coping ability of health care system workers who are impacted by the present COVID-19 pandemic.

Prof. Dr. Liaquat Hossain
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Assessment of Physicians’ Willingness to Work with Patients Not Yet Diagnosed with COVID-19 in a Romanian Sample
by Tudor-Ștefan Rotaru, Daniela Cojocaru, Ștefan Cojocaru, Ovidiu Alexinschi, Aida Puia and Liviu Oprea
Healthcare 2024, 12(2), 161; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12020161 - 10 Jan 2024
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Background: The risk to physicians who worked with patients without confirmed COVID-19 testing during the pandemic has been little studied. However, they were at high risk. Methods: In the summer of 2020, 1285 Romanian physicians participated in a single-center study. Participants (mean age [...] Read more.
Background: The risk to physicians who worked with patients without confirmed COVID-19 testing during the pandemic has been little studied. However, they were at high risk. Methods: In the summer of 2020, 1285 Romanian physicians participated in a single-center study. Participants (mean age = 48.21 years; 302 males and 982 females, all specialties) completed a series of single-item measures adapted from previous studies on work ethics and responsibility. This study used Mann–Whitney comparisons between physicians who reported that they knowingly had direct contact with COVID patients and those who did not regarding their willingness to work. Results: Compared with their colleagues, physicians who reported not knowingly having direct contact with COVID patients reported less access to protective equipment, less overall willingness to respond when asked to work with infected patients, more likely to work out of fear of losing their jobs, and fear of legal repercussions. They received less training in the use of protective equipment. Conclusions: Physicians who worked with patients not yet diagnosed with COVID-19 were significantly less willing to work. The perception of invisible risk may explain the observed differences. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Global Health Workforce Resilience during COVID-19 Pandemic)
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Nurses’ Work–Family Strategies during COVID-19 Lockdown and Their Association with Individual Health and Family Relations
by Jia-Lin Zhao, Li Shen, John Shields, Ya-Xuan Wang, Yu-Jia Wu, Zhan Yu and Yi-Xin Li
Healthcare 2023, 11(22), 2960; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11222960 - 14 Nov 2023
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The COVID-19 lockdown forced people to stay at home and address their family duties more equally. However, since nurses themselves were involved in the closed-loop management in hospitals and unable to return home, there was also an increased likelihood of non-traditional work-family strategies [...] Read more.
The COVID-19 lockdown forced people to stay at home and address their family duties more equally. However, since nurses themselves were involved in the closed-loop management in hospitals and unable to return home, there was also an increased likelihood of non-traditional work-family strategies emerging. To ascertain the extant and implications of this phenomenon, this cross-sectional study explores work–family management strategies among nurses during the COVID-19 lockdown and their association with nurses’ individual health, family relationships, and job performance. Survey data were collected from 287 nurses who were involved in the closed-loop management in Shanghai hospitals from March to June 2022. Latent Class Analysis of seven categorical variables of nurses’ work–family status (e.g., the division of childcare labor) produced a best-fit solution of five strategies (BLRT (p) < 0.001, LMR (p) = 0.79, AIC = 5611.34, BIC = 6302.39, SSA-BIC = 5703.65, Entropy = 0.938): (1) fully outsourcing to grandparents, (2) partially outsourcing to grandparents, with the husband filling in the gap, (3) the husband does it all, (4) egalitarian remote workers, and (5) a neo-traditional strategy. Nurses who applied the egalitarian strategy had less psychological distress and relationship tension and better performance than those who applied the neo-traditional strategy and performed most of the childcare. The “husband does it all” strategy and the outsourcing strategies seem to have double-edged effects, with better job performance and family relations but also more distress and fewer sleeping hours among nurses. Overall, with a view to future risk mitigation, policymakers and practitioners should be aware of the diversity of the work–family strategies among nurse families during the lockdown period, and their association with individual and family outcomes, and provide tailored support. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Global Health Workforce Resilience during COVID-19 Pandemic)
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Self-Compassion, Work Engagement and Job Performance among Intensive Care Nurses during COVID-19 Pandemic: The Mediation Role of Mental Health and the Moderating Role of Gender
by Reihaneh Bahrami Nejad Joneghani, Rayehe Bahrami Nejad Joneghani, Hakimeh Dustmohammadloo, Parisa Bouzari, Pejman Ebrahimi and Mária Fekete-Farkas
Healthcare 2023, 11(13), 1884; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11131884 - 29 Jun 2023
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(1) Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted attention on the importance of certain variables in predicting job performance. Among these, mental health is one of the main variables affected by this pandemic. It can have an important mediating role in predicting job performance [...] Read more.
(1) Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted attention on the importance of certain variables in predicting job performance. Among these, mental health is one of the main variables affected by this pandemic. It can have an important mediating role in predicting job performance by individual, occupational, and organizational variables, especially in the nursing community. However, there is little information about its mediation role among the predictors of job performance. This cross-sectional study aimed to examine the role of mental health as a mediating factor in the influence of self-compassion and work engagement on ICU nurses’ job performance during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the moderating effect of gender on all model relations. A survey of 424 ICU nurses (men 193 and women 231) was undertaken in three Coronavirus hospitals in Isfahan, Iran. (2) Method: Questionnaires were distributed and collected among the statistical sample, and the data from the questionnaires were analyzed using AMOS24 software (version 24). The research model was evaluated in two stages (the main model and the two sub-models in two gender groups). (3) Result: The analysis revealed that work engagement (β = 0.42, p < 0.001), mental health (β = 0.54, p < 0.001) and job performance (β = 0.51, p < 0.001) were discovered to be positively related to self-compassion. Work engagement is positively associated with mental health (β = 0.16, p < 0.01) and job performance (β = 0.21, p < 0.001), and mental health is linked positively to job performance (β = 0.23, p < 0.001). Furthermore, the effects of self-compassion and work engagement on job performance are mediated by mental health. According to the findings, gender moderates the link between self-compassion and work engagement, work engagement and job performance, and self-compassion and job performance. (4) Conclusion: Mental health has a mediating role in the effect of self-compassion and work engagement on ICU nurses’ job performance. Gender also acted as a moderator in some relationships. Males are dominant in all of these relationships as compared to females. Full article
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