Stressing Experience and Stigma of Covid-19 Pandemic: Analysis Of Pre-Service Nurses Intention Toward Infectious Diseases Centres in Ghana

doi:10.7176/jmpb/72-03

Abstract

This paper explored perceived stressing experience and perceived stigma of Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic among pre-service nurses and how these perceptual factors could affect their intention to work at infectious treatment centres in the future. The paper followed mixed analytical procedure where both quantitative and qualitative approaches were employed. Concurrent analytical procedures were adopted where both qualitative and quantitative data were collected concurrent through the use of questionnaire. Questionnaire and interview guide were used for the collecting the data. Multi-stage sampling technique was employed where cluster, stratified and simple random sampling techniques were employed concurrently. Sample size of 150 was used. However, 117 questionnaires were obtained and processed. 11 students were also interviewed. Content and thematic analysis was used to analyse the qualitative data while mean scale and standard multiple regression were employed for the quantitative analysis. The study revealed high perception score of stigmatisation, perceived high stressing experience, and high work-family conflict. The study further found that all the perceptual factors: perceived Covid-19 stigma, perceived covid-19 stressing experience and perceived covid-19 related work-family conflict have significant negative influence on the pre-service nurses’ intention to provide care for infectious diseases. It is recommended that training of these pre-service nurses should emphasis these experiences and possible stigmas to minimise elements of surprise. Health administrators should regular gather data on nurses' experience and perceive stigmas of epidemics and infectious diseases and integrate them in their training programmes. There is no funding to report. Keywords: Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic, Pre-Service Nurses, Perceived Stressing Experience, Stigma, Work-Family Conflict and Pre-Service Nurses Intention DOI: 10.7176/JMPB/72-03 Publication date: February 28 th 2022

Highlights

It is useful in theory and for policy and practitioners to assess these pre-service nurses’ opinion and perception of these negative waves surrounding nurses who are working at Covid-19 treatment centre and how these perceptual factors could affect their intentions to work at similar centres in the future. Despite these sound bases for extending the literature on Covid-19 dynamics to pre-service nurses, there is virtually no study in this respect. It is against these that this paper seeks to contribute to Covid-19 literature by exploring the perceived stressing experience and perceived stigma of Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic among pre-service nurses and how these perceptual factors could affect their intention to work at infectious treatment centres in the future
The results revealed that COVID-19 victims have faced various forms of stigma such as stereotyping, social exclusion, mockery, finger-pointing, and insults
This indicates that www.iiste.org the pre-service nurses who participated in the study are youthful who are at their prime age of their career

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Introduction

It is often said, ‘Healthy People, Healthy Nation’. In view of this, quality healthcare is a priority for all nations. The study further revealed that only 14.7% of all participants in the research received psychological www.iiste.org support to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic These distressing conditions, ill-treatment and sigma could affect the resolve of future healthcare practitioners including pre-service nurses and their intention to respond positively to outbreak of infectious diseases. The waves of reported mistreatment against healthcare providers especial nurses, reported unpreparedness and stressing working, high covid-19 related work-family conflict and stigma (Duan et al, 2020; Earnshaw, 2020; Do Duy et al, 2020; International Federation, 2020; Rajkumar,2020; Xiao, 2020) could have implications on pre-service nurses intention in working at infectious diseases treatment centre in the future.

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