Nurses’ Psychological Resilience Levels and Family Role Performances during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Descriptive and Correlational Study
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Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the psychological resilience and family role performances of nurses who worked in a hospital pandemic during COVID-19.
Methods: This study was descriptive and correlational. The study sample consisted of 318 nurses working in a tertiary state hospital in Kayseri. Data were collected using by “Socio-Demographic Form”, “Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale”, and “Family Role Performance Scale”. After the normal distribution analysis of the data, SPSS 22.0 was used for descriptive and advanced analysis, and Lisrel 8.71 program was used for structural equation modeling.
Results: As a result of the structural equation model, it was found that the psychological resilience of nurses had a significant 0.61 effect on family role performance (p<0.01). It was found that the psychological resilience score of the nurses was higher and statistically significantly different in males, married, having children, and not having any fear of infection (p<0.05). The family role performance scores of the nurses were higher and statistically significantly different in those who did not have close contact with the patient with COVID-19, those who received isolation training, and those who see their families every day (p<0.05).
Conclusion: Based on the results, the psychological resilience levels of participants nurses were high, their family role performances were moderate, and psychological resilience had a significant effect on family role performance. Therefore, nurses should maintain work and life balance during the pandemic and protect positive expectations and goals for life in the face of painful experiences.
Anahtar Kelimeler
COVID-19, nurse, family role performance, psychological resilience
Teşekkür
The authors thank all the nurses who agreed to participate in the study during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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