Sociological analysis of the dynamics of socio-psychological well-being of medical workers in the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

The article presents the results of a sociological survey of medical workers conducted in 2022 by the staff of the Karaganda Medical University and Karaganda State University. Buketova E.A. Labor peculiarities and socio-psychological well-being of medical workers have always been in the focus of such a direction of modern science as the sociology of labor and professions, since medicine is the most important socially significant sphere of society. The object of the study were doctors, medical staff of hospitals and polyclinics, college and university students with experience in covid hospitals. The purpose of the study is to analyze the process of dynamics of changes in the structure of the ethos of medical workers under the influence of work experience in a pandemic and to study the socio-psychological well-being, the level of satisfaction with various aspects of work and life on the basis of a comprehensive interdisciplinary approach (sociological questionnaires, for the development of which the author's certificate was obtained by the research team, using the Google platform in online format, content analysis of statements of medical workers, psychological testing). According to the survey, according to the estimates of medical workers in the conditions of a pandemic, the role and importance of medicine in modern states has increased significantly, issues of the quality of medical services and the system of incentives for work have become particularly acute. In these conditions of increasing external and internal challenges in relation to this important profession, the issues of preserving and reproducing the professional ethos of medical workers become closely related to solving the problem of preserving the optimal socio-psychological well-being of medical workers, the level of satisfaction with working conditions and results. The study of this issue makes it possible to prepare for possible repetitions of such situations, to assess them in real time, to coordinate the work of medical workers in extreme conditions of the development of a medical and social situation in the necessary way.  Keywords: ethos, professional values and norms, COVID-19, healthcare, medicine, medical workers, socio-psychological well-being, anxiety level, corporate culture.