WORK STRESS AMONG HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS (HCPS) WORKING ACROSS INDIA DURING COVID – 19

Author Name: Farzana Begum

Volume/Issue: 01/11

Country: India

DOI NO.: 08.2020-25662434 DOI Link: http://www.doi-ds.org/doilink/05.2021-14297111/UIJIR

Affiliation:

1. Assistant Professor, College of Nursing, Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India

ABSTRACT

Stress is a body's natural reaction to a challenge or demand. It can be positive, such as when it helps to avoid danger or meet a deadline. But it become negative if lasts for a long time, deteriorates individual’s physical as well as psychosocial aspects of life. Work-related stress is a potential cause of concern among health care providers universally. COVID-19 has placed health care providers in quite stressful circumstances. Several studies have revealed the significant increase of the work related stress among the health care providers and its negative impact on their health. The current study concluded that health care providers suffer from mild to moderate degree of work stress thus become sensitive to criticism (67%), exhausted, irritable or frustrated (18.6%), feeling sad or depressed (18.6%), easily getting tired or fatigued (17%), find difficulty in not to think about job when off work (16%). Persistent work overload, discrimination since giving care to COVID patient, and loneliness due to quarantine, witnessing frequent loss of life, disruption of work-life balance, pushed beyond training, inadequate supply of PPE, are some of the underline reason of work related stress among the health care providers. Therefore, strategies should be developed for the health care providers so that they can better cope with such work stress.

Key words: Work stress, Health Care Providers, COVID – 19.