Abstract
This research aimed to examine health-care workers' grief counseling for bereaved families of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) victims in China. Our research may provide a new opportunity to stimulate development of grief counseling in China. A cross-sectional survey was conducted with 724 health-care workers selected by convenience sampling from 7 hospitals in Wuhan. Data collection tools included a sociodemographic questionnaire, the skills of grief counseling scale (SGCS), and the attitudes of grief counseling scale (AGCS). The average SGCS score was 18.96 ± 4.66, whose influencing factors consisted of sense of responsibility, frequency of contact with bereaved families, and relevant training (P < 0.05). The average AGCS score was 33.36 ± 8.70, whose influencing factors consisted of other grief counseling skills, communication skills, education background, and relevant training (P < 0.05). The skills and attitudes toward grief counseling among health-care workers combating COVID-19 were at a lower level in Wuhan, China, indicating the need to build a comprehensive grief counseling system, establish a standardized training course, and strengthen the popularization of grief counseling services to the public.
Highlights
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has created a mortality shock around the world, it may create a second wave of psychosocial problems tied to bereavement.[1]
Our research demonstrated that the potential influencing factors of grief counseling skills comprised of sense of responsibility, frequency of contact with bereaved families, and relevant training
We found that possessing a strong sense of responsibility was closely related to health-care workers’ good grief counseling skills
Summary
Study Design and ParticipantsWe launched a cross-sectional survey using an electronic questionnaire. Taking into consideration data collection availability and quality, health-care workers from 7 hospitals in Wuhan were investigated by convenience sampling. The electronic questionnaires were distributed to the health-care workers’ cell phones through their medical service departments and nursing departments. 785 health-care workers completed our questionnaire from February 2020 to May 2020. The data normal distribution was tested by Kolmogorov Smirnov analysis. Values of VIF were all lower than 10, so there is no multicollinearity. The comparison of different sociodemographic characteristics of health-care workers’ skills and attitudes toward grief counseling were analyzed by univariate analysis. The correlations between grief counseling skills and attitudes toward grief counseling were analyzed using Pearson correlation analysis. Multiple-factor analysis of skills of grief counseling and attitudes of grief counseling were, respectively, analyzed using multiple regression analysis. Values of P < 0.05 were considered statistically significant
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