Abstract
This paper examines the influence of work-related stress, social support, fear of COVID-19, and demographics in promoting mental health (MH) amongst healthcare workers (HCWs) in Nigeria. Hence, it adopted a survey research design. The results showed that work-related stress, social support, fear of COVID-19, and demographics strongly and jointly influence healthcare workers’ mental health in Nigeria. Also, they indicated a significant independent influence of these independent factors on healthcare workers’ mental health. The results show that out of the demographics considered in this study (such as gender, age, marital status, level of education, profession, department, work experience, and state of residence), only marital status did not significantly influence the healthcare workers’ mental health in Nigeria. So, the government, health faculties, clinical psychologists, human resources managers, and medical practitioners should encourage reducing work-related stress. This should be done by increasing social support, reducing fear of COVID-19, and considering demographics while trying to promote healthcare workers’ mental health in Nigeria, especially during the current COVID -19 pandemic era. Thus, this paper has recognized work-related stress, social support, fear of COVID-19, and demographics as significant influencers in promoting mental health amongst healthcare workers in Nigeria.
Highlights
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), previously identified as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), and the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), was initially recognized in November 2019 in Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei Province of China (Wu & McGoogan, 2020; WHO, 2020)
The current paper aims to look into the mental health of healthcare workers in Nigeria during the Covid-19 pandemic, as affected by psychosomatic problems (WRS), social support (SS), fear of Covid-19 (FoCovid-19), and demographics
This study has indicated that work-related stress significantly negatively influences mental health sustainability amongst healthcare workers in Nigeria
Summary
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), previously identified as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), and the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), was initially recognized in November 2019 in Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei Province of China (Wu & McGoogan, 2020; WHO, 2020). The infection swiftly spread all over Hubei Province and other areas in China before spreading to different places across the globe, resulting in an international health crisis (Wu & McGoogan, 2020; WHO, 2020). Healthcare workers’ mental health has significantly been affected as the virus spreads (Wu et al, 2009). In fighting the abrupt advent of the virus, mental distress amongst healthcare workers surfaced slowly, while anxiety and fear appeared instantaneously and reduced in the initial phases of the epidemic with sadness and posttraumatic trauma signs emerging later and persisting for an extended time, resulting in profound impacts (Wu et al, 2009). There are scarce studies on the psychological and physical effects of eruptions of communicable infections on the healthcare workers, mostly when related to high workload, stress, and burnout are connected to the risk of infection (Xiao et al, 2020)
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