Working conditions and occupational stress of health professionals during COVID-19

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Autor(a) principal: Sousa, Diana
Data de Publicação: 2023
Outros Autores: Sobral, Filipa, Morais, Catarina
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: por
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/gestaoedesenvolvimento.2023.12762
Resumo: In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as a pandemic. Its appearance and propagation contributed to increase the challenges existent in the everyday life of healthcare workers, compelling a partnership between private and public sectors to optimize the response towards treatment of the disease in Portugal. Occupational stress, described as the fear or worry in being or transmitting the infection duo to the extensive working hours and lack of material and resources towards fighting the virus led the present investigation to aiming to analyse the perception of work conditions and levels of occupational stress experienced by healthcare workers in the public and private sectors during the pandemic. It’s a quantitative and transversal study contrived by 97 healthcare workers, associated with the public and private sector. The results revealed that even though the medium value of workload between sectors is similar, the professionals worked significantly more hours than the stipulated/planned. Likewise, the level of occupational stress among professionals from different contexts was similar. Lastly, it was concluded that the physical and material work conditions predict occupational stress, instead of the workload. This study demonstrates that it´s important that the health institutions, either private or public, provide the best material and physical work conditions to their healthcare workers, specially under the demands of the pandemic context.
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spelling Working conditions and occupational stress of health professionals during COVID-19As condições de trabalho e o stress ocupacional de profissionais de saúde durante a COVID-19In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as a pandemic. Its appearance and propagation contributed to increase the challenges existent in the everyday life of healthcare workers, compelling a partnership between private and public sectors to optimize the response towards treatment of the disease in Portugal. Occupational stress, described as the fear or worry in being or transmitting the infection duo to the extensive working hours and lack of material and resources towards fighting the virus led the present investigation to aiming to analyse the perception of work conditions and levels of occupational stress experienced by healthcare workers in the public and private sectors during the pandemic. It’s a quantitative and transversal study contrived by 97 healthcare workers, associated with the public and private sector. The results revealed that even though the medium value of workload between sectors is similar, the professionals worked significantly more hours than the stipulated/planned. Likewise, the level of occupational stress among professionals from different contexts was similar. Lastly, it was concluded that the physical and material work conditions predict occupational stress, instead of the workload. This study demonstrates that it´s important that the health institutions, either private or public, provide the best material and physical work conditions to their healthcare workers, specially under the demands of the pandemic context.Em março de 2020, a Organização Mundial de Saúde declarou a COVID-19 como pandemia. O seu surgimento e propagação contribuiu para aumentar os desafios existentes no quotidiano dos profissionais de saúde, impelindo o desenvolvimento de uma parceria entre o Serviço Nacional de Saúde e Privados para prestar uma resposta otimizada ao tratamento da doença, em Portugal. O stress ocupacional, traduzido no medo e preocupação de ser infetado e infetar, devido às jornadas laborais extensas e falta de materiais e recursos no combate ao vírus, leva a presente investigação a ter como objetivo a análise da perceção das condições de trabalho e dos níveis de stress ocupacional percecionados pelos profissionais de saúde nos contextos hospitalares público e privado durante a pandemia. Tratou-se de um estudo quantitativo e transversal, composto por um total de 97 profissionais de saúde do setor público e privado. Os resultados revelaram que, apesar da média dos valores de sobrecarga horária entre setores ser semelhante, os profissionais de saúde trabalharam significativamente mais horas do que as estipuladas/previstas. De igual modo, o nível de stress ocupacional entre os profissionais dos diferentes contextos foi similar. Por fim, aferiu-se que as condições físicas e materiais de trabalho são preditoras de stress ocupacional, ao invés da sobrecarga horária. Este estudo demonstra que é importante que as instituições de saúde, sejam elas públicas ou privadas, disponibilizem aos seus trabalhadores as melhores condições de trabalho físicas e materiais possíveis, sobretudo face às exigências de um contexto pandémico.Universidade Católica Portuguesa2023-05-09info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://doi.org/10.34632/gestaoedesenvolvimento.2023.12762https://doi.org/10.34632/gestaoedesenvolvimento.2023.12762Gestão e Desenvolvimento; No 31 (2023); 319-345Gestão e Desenvolvimento; n. 31 (2023); 319-3452184-56380872-556X10.34632/gestaoedesenvolvimento.2023.n31reponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAPporhttps://revistas.ucp.pt/index.php/gestaoedesenvolvimento/article/view/12762https://revistas.ucp.pt/index.php/gestaoedesenvolvimento/article/view/12762/12187Direitos de Autor (c) 2023 Diana Sousa, Filipa Sobral, Catarina Moraishttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSousa, DianaSobral, FilipaMorais, Catarina2023-05-10T03:00:13Zoai:ojs.revistas.ucp.pt:article/12762Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T17:51:03.855015Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
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As condições de trabalho e o stress ocupacional de profissionais de saúde durante a COVID-19
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Sobral, Filipa
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description In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as a pandemic. Its appearance and propagation contributed to increase the challenges existent in the everyday life of healthcare workers, compelling a partnership between private and public sectors to optimize the response towards treatment of the disease in Portugal. Occupational stress, described as the fear or worry in being or transmitting the infection duo to the extensive working hours and lack of material and resources towards fighting the virus led the present investigation to aiming to analyse the perception of work conditions and levels of occupational stress experienced by healthcare workers in the public and private sectors during the pandemic. It’s a quantitative and transversal study contrived by 97 healthcare workers, associated with the public and private sector. The results revealed that even though the medium value of workload between sectors is similar, the professionals worked significantly more hours than the stipulated/planned. Likewise, the level of occupational stress among professionals from different contexts was similar. Lastly, it was concluded that the physical and material work conditions predict occupational stress, instead of the workload. This study demonstrates that it´s important that the health institutions, either private or public, provide the best material and physical work conditions to their healthcare workers, specially under the demands of the pandemic context.
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