Health Pandemic and Experience of COVID-19 Infected Health Workers: A Qualitative Study

Q2 Social Sciences

Studies on Ethno-Medicine Pub Date : 2021-11-25 DOI:10.31901/24566772.2021/15.3-4.639

Diganta Das

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Due to the rapid spread of the COVID-19 disease, the world communities were faced extreme stress to deal with the pandemic. The World Health Organisation (WHO) was decided to declare COVID-19 as a pandemic on March 11, 2020. COVID-19 pandemic was brought extreme challenges on health workers including nurses and ward attendants’ work in the healthcare service. The objective of this study was to explored the impact on health workers of India. This study was conducted among nurses and ward attendants and they were known for their service through the COVID-19 pandemic. This study was included 20 respondents where 10 of them were nurses and the other 10 were ward attendants at the hospital. The interview method was used to collect the data, and the interviews were conducted between November 2020 and February 2021. The interviews were conducted over the phone. Data was analysed with the help of Graneheim’s qualitative content analytical approaches. This study found that health workers were faced anxiety, fear of death, social isolation, loss of hope about future, separation anxiety from family members, etc. They were faced with uncertainty of their own life and even family members due to higher death rate among health workers and also patients.

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卫生大流行与COVID-19感染卫生工作者的经验:一项定性研究

摘要由于新冠肺炎疫情的迅速蔓延，国际社会面临着应对疫情的巨大压力。世界卫生组织（世界卫生组织）决定于2020年3月11日宣布新冠肺炎为大流行。新冠肺炎大流行给包括护士和病房服务员在内的卫生工作者在医疗服务中的工作带来了极端挑战。本研究的目的是探讨对印度卫生工作者的影响。这项研究是在护士和病房服务员中进行的，他们因在新冠肺炎大流行期间的服务而闻名。这项研究包括20名受访者，其中10人是护士，另外10人是医院的病房服务员。采用访谈法收集数据，访谈时间为2020年11月至2021年2月。采访是通过电话进行的。借助Graneheim的定性内容分析方法对数据进行了分析。这项研究发现，卫生工作者面临焦虑、对死亡的恐惧、社会孤立、对未来失去希望、与家人分离的焦虑等。由于卫生工作者和患者的死亡率较高，他们面临着自己甚至家人生活的不确定性。

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Studies on Ethno-Medicine Social Sciences-Cultural Studies

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期刊介绍： Studies on Ethno-Medicine is a peer reviewed, internationally circulated journal. It publishes reports of original research, theoretical articles, timely reviews, brief communications, book reviews and other publications in the interdisciplinary field of ethno-medicine. The journal serves as a forum for physical, social and life scientists as well as for health professionals. The transdisciplinary areas covered by this journal include, but are not limited to, Physical Sciences, Anthropology, Sociology, Geography, Life Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Botany, Agriculture, Home Science, Zoology, Genetics, Biology, Medical Sciences, Public Health, Demography and Epidemiology. The journal publishes basic, applied and methodologically oriented research from all such areas. The journal is committed to prompt review, and priority publication is given to manuscripts with novel or timely findings, and to manuscript of unusual interest. Further, the manuscripts are categorised under three types, namely - Regular articles, Short Communications and Reviews. The researchers are invited to submit original papers in English (papers published elsewhere or under consideration elsewhere shall not be considered).