TY - JOUR
T1 - Fear of COVID-19 and Job Stress in Nursing Professionals in Lima, Peru
AU - Reyes-Gastañadui, Neal Henry
AU - Cabanillas-Chavez, María Teresa
AU - Meneses-La-Riva, Monica Elisa
AU - Suyo-Vega, Josefina Amanda
AU - Morales-García, Wilter C.
AU - da Costa Polonia, Ana
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Reyes-Gastañadui et al.
PY - 2023/7
Y1 - 2023/7
N2 - COVID-19 pandemic made the importance of nursing care within the healthcare environment visible. The lack of this human resource is essential to provide direct care to patients in meeting basic needs and specialized care for health recovery. However, the new disease brought a lot of fear and fear of getting sick or dying from COVID-19, causing various human responses or emotional problems. The study's objective was to determine the relationship between fear of COVID-19 and work stress in nursing professionals in hospital institutions in Lima. The sample consisted of 515 nursing professionals working in the various hospital services of health institutions in Lima. The fear of COVID-19 scale (7 items) and Work Stress scale (12 items) were used. It was concluded that the greater the fear of COVID-19, the greater the work stress in nursing professionals, since the results obtained indicated an excellent and positive relationship (0.779) between these variables.
AB - COVID-19 pandemic made the importance of nursing care within the healthcare environment visible. The lack of this human resource is essential to provide direct care to patients in meeting basic needs and specialized care for health recovery. However, the new disease brought a lot of fear and fear of getting sick or dying from COVID-19, causing various human responses or emotional problems. The study's objective was to determine the relationship between fear of COVID-19 and work stress in nursing professionals in hospital institutions in Lima. The sample consisted of 515 nursing professionals working in the various hospital services of health institutions in Lima. The fear of COVID-19 scale (7 items) and Work Stress scale (12 items) were used. It was concluded that the greater the fear of COVID-19, the greater the work stress in nursing professionals, since the results obtained indicated an excellent and positive relationship (0.779) between these variables.
KW - Fear of COVID-19
KW - hospital setting
KW - nursing professionals
KW - work stress
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85166415185&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.36941/ajis-2023-0109
DO - 10.36941/ajis-2023-0109
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85166415185
SN - 2281-3993
VL - 12
SP - 232
EP - 238
JO - Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies
JF - Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies
IS - 4
ER -
