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- Title
Nursing Home Workers' Experience During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
- Authors
Kunkle, Rachel; Xu, Haolin; Thomas, Laine E.; Webb, Laura E.; O'Brien, Emily C.; Geary, Carol Reynolds
- Abstract
Purpose: To understand nursing home workers' experience during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and investigate the prevalence of health-related quality of life, emotional distress, job satisfaction, and the impact of the pandemic. Method: The Healthcare Worker Exposure Response and Outcomes (HERO) Registry served as the data source for this descriptive cross-sectional analysis. Recruitment was conducted nationally. Eligible nursing home workers (N = 1,409) enrolled in the study online, self-reported demographic and employment characteristics, and completed electronic surveys. Results: Nursing home workers reported overall good physical health, frequent depressive symptoms, burnout, and a high prevalence of feeling tired, stressed, having trouble sleeping, and feeling worried. Age and race were found to be positively associated with the impact of the pandemic. Conclusion: Findings demonstrate the difficulties and challenges nursing home workers faced during the COVID-19 pandemic. Future research needs to evaluate the relationships among nursing home workers' roles, mental health, depressive symptoms, and prevalence of burnout with a larger, more diverse sample. [Research in Gerontological Nursing, 17(3), 131–140.]
- Subjects
MENTAL depression risk factors; CROSS-sectional method; NURSING home employees; PSYCHOLOGICAL distress; HEALTH status indicators; PSYCHOLOGICAL burnout; WORRY; SMOKING; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; MULTIVARIATE analysis; JOB satisfaction; SURVEYS; QUALITY of life; RESEARCH methodology; PSYCHOSOCIAL factors; COVID-19 pandemic; REGRESSION analysis; SLEEP disorders
- Publication
Research in Gerontological Nursing, 2024, Vol 17, Issue 3, p131
- ISSN
1940-4921
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3928/19404921-20240423-02