Developing and testing a measure of COVID-19 organizational support of healthcare workers – results from Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia

Stephen X. Zhang; Shuhua Sun; Asghar Afshar Jahanshahi; Aldo Alvarez-Risco; Verónica García Ibarra; Jizhen Li; Ross Mary Patty-Tito

doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113174

Developing and testing a measure of COVID-19 organizational support of healthcare workers – results from Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia

Stephen X. Zhang, Shuhua Sun, Asghar Afshar Jahanshahi, Aldo Alvarez-Risco, Verónica García Ibarra, Jizhen Li, Ross Mary Patty-Tito

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Abstract

During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers are facing high workloads with resource constraints and risk of virus exposure, and healthcare organizations need to support their healthcare workers to reduce their anxiety. Based on a recent 8-point framework of COVID-19 specific organization support, we devised a measure of COVID-19 Organizational Support (COVID-OS). We tested the new measure with 712 healthcare workers in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru and found the new measure formed three factors to predict healthcare workers’ anxiety and life satisfaction during the COVID-19 pandemic. We call for further studies to test COVID-OS in other countries and settings.

Original language	English
Article number	113174
Journal	Psychiatry Research
Volume	291
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113174
State	Published - Sep 2020
Externally published	Yes

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Anxiety
Life satisfaction
Pandemic

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