The cross-sectional relations of COVID-19 fear and stress to psychologica distress among frontline healthcare workers in Selangor, Malaysia
Previous pandemics have demonstrated short and long-term impacts on healthcare workers’ mental health, causing knock-on effects on patient care and professional functioning. Indeed, the present COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented disruption in social interactions and working conditions. Mala...
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| author | Subhas, Natasha Pang, Nicholas Tze Ping Chua, Wei Cheng Kamu, Assis Chong, Mun Ho David, Isabel Shamini Wei, William Liang Goh Gunasegaran, Yogaraja Indran Tan, Kit-Aun |
| author_facet | Subhas, Natasha Pang, Nicholas Tze Ping Chua, Wei Cheng Kamu, Assis Chong, Mun Ho David, Isabel Shamini Wei, William Liang Goh Gunasegaran, Yogaraja Indran Tan, Kit-Aun |
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| description | Previous pandemics have demonstrated short and long-term impacts on healthcare workers’ mental health, causing knock-on effects on patient care and professional functioning. Indeed, the present COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented disruption in social interactions and working conditions. Malaysia has been under the Recovery Movement Control Order since June 2020; however, with the upsurge of cases, healthcare workers face pressure not only from working in resource-deprived settings but also from the increasing patient load. The primary objective of the present study was to examine the cross-sectional relationship of COVID-19 fear and stress to psychological distress (operationalized as anxiety and depression) in healthcare workers. The present sample included 286 frontline healthcare workers from three hospitals in Selangor, Malaysia. Self-administered questionnaires containing sociodemographic and occupational items, the Malay versions of the Coronavirus Stress Measure scale, the Fear of Coronavirus-19 scale, the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7, and the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 were distributed via online platforms. Hierarchical multiple regression findings suggest that age, shift work, and COVID-19 stress consistently predicted anxiety and depression among frontline healthcare workers after adjusting for sociodemographic and occupational variables. The present findings suggest that frontline healthcare workers are not only inoculated against COVID-19 itself but also against the psychological sequelae of the pandemic. |
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| spelling | upm-953632023-04-12T04:43:40Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/95363/ The cross-sectional relations of COVID-19 fear and stress to psychologica distress among frontline healthcare workers in Selangor, Malaysia Subhas, Natasha Pang, Nicholas Tze Ping Chua, Wei Cheng Kamu, Assis Chong, Mun Ho David, Isabel Shamini Wei, William Liang Goh Gunasegaran, Yogaraja Indran Tan, Kit-Aun Previous pandemics have demonstrated short and long-term impacts on healthcare workers’ mental health, causing knock-on effects on patient care and professional functioning. Indeed, the present COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented disruption in social interactions and working conditions. Malaysia has been under the Recovery Movement Control Order since June 2020; however, with the upsurge of cases, healthcare workers face pressure not only from working in resource-deprived settings but also from the increasing patient load. The primary objective of the present study was to examine the cross-sectional relationship of COVID-19 fear and stress to psychological distress (operationalized as anxiety and depression) in healthcare workers. The present sample included 286 frontline healthcare workers from three hospitals in Selangor, Malaysia. Self-administered questionnaires containing sociodemographic and occupational items, the Malay versions of the Coronavirus Stress Measure scale, the Fear of Coronavirus-19 scale, the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7, and the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 were distributed via online platforms. Hierarchical multiple regression findings suggest that age, shift work, and COVID-19 stress consistently predicted anxiety and depression among frontline healthcare workers after adjusting for sociodemographic and occupational variables. The present findings suggest that frontline healthcare workers are not only inoculated against COVID-19 itself but also against the psychological sequelae of the pandemic. MDPI AG 2021-09-28 Article PeerReviewed Subhas, Natasha and Pang, Nicholas Tze Ping and Chua, Wei Cheng and Kamu, Assis and Chong, Mun Ho and David, Isabel Shamini and Wei, William Liang Goh and Gunasegaran, Yogaraja Indran and Tan, Kit-Aun (2021) The cross-sectional relations of COVID-19 fear and stress to psychologica distress among frontline healthcare workers in Selangor, Malaysia. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18 (19). art. no. 10182. pp. 1-11. ISSN 1660-4601 https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/19/10182 10.3390/ijerph181910182 |
| spellingShingle | Subhas, Natasha Pang, Nicholas Tze Ping Chua, Wei Cheng Kamu, Assis Chong, Mun Ho David, Isabel Shamini Wei, William Liang Goh Gunasegaran, Yogaraja Indran Tan, Kit-Aun The cross-sectional relations of COVID-19 fear and stress to psychologica distress among frontline healthcare workers in Selangor, Malaysia |
| title | The cross-sectional relations of COVID-19 fear and stress to psychologica distress among frontline healthcare workers in Selangor, Malaysia |
| title_full | The cross-sectional relations of COVID-19 fear and stress to psychologica distress among frontline healthcare workers in Selangor, Malaysia |
| title_fullStr | The cross-sectional relations of COVID-19 fear and stress to psychologica distress among frontline healthcare workers in Selangor, Malaysia |
| title_full_unstemmed | The cross-sectional relations of COVID-19 fear and stress to psychologica distress among frontline healthcare workers in Selangor, Malaysia |
| title_short | The cross-sectional relations of COVID-19 fear and stress to psychologica distress among frontline healthcare workers in Selangor, Malaysia |
| title_sort | cross-sectional relations of covid-19 fear and stress to psychologica distress among frontline healthcare workers in selangor, malaysia |
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