Online Affirmation and Peer Support are Effective for Reducing Medical Personnel Stress in Dealing with Covid-19 Patients

Unnes Journal of Public Health Pub Date : 2021-07-15 DOI:10.15294/UJPH.V10I2.42861

N. Saleha, Rina Delfina, N. Nurlaili, Fourni Ardiansyah, Mercy Nafratilova

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Abstract

The Covid-19 outbreak has psychological impacts on frontline medical personnel at risk of infection. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the effect of online affirmations and peer support on medical personnel stress level in dealing with Covid-19 patients, as well as social support and spiritual intelligence's influence. It was a quasi-experiment with pre- and post-test administered to 25 and 30 medical personnel as the intervention and control groups, respectively. The intervention was carried out on WhatsApp group for 4 weeks. The stress level pair T-test results showed p = 0.000 in the intervention group and p = 0.238 in the control, while the independent T-test results showed p = 0.009. Social support did not affect medical personnel’s stress (p=0.978), but the effect of spiritual intelligence was significant (p=0.000). According to the results of multiple regression test conducted using the Enter method, the coefficient value (R2) = 0.584. This intervention was effective in helping medical personnel to manage stress. Hence, hospital managers need to carry out stress management training to maintain medical personnel’s mental health.

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新冠肺炎疫情对面临感染风险的一线医务人员产生了心理影响。因此，本研究旨在评估在线肯定和同伴支持对医务人员应对新冠肺炎患者的压力水平的影响，以及社会支持和精神智力的影响。这是一项准实验，分别对25名和30名医务人员作为干预组和对照组进行测试前和测试后的测试。在WhatsApp群组上进行了为期4周的干预。干预组和对照组的应力水平配对T检验结果分别为p=0.000和0.238，而独立T检验结果为p=0.009。社会支持对医务人员的压力没有影响（p=0.978），但对精神智力的影响显著（p=0.000）。这种干预措施在帮助医务人员管理压力方面是有效的。因此，医院管理者需要进行压力管理培训，以维护医务人员的心理健康。

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