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

Stephen Xu Zhang; Shuhua Sun; Asghar Afshar Jahanshahi; Aldo Alvarez-Risco; VerÃ³nica GarcÃ­a Ibarra; Jizhen Li; Ross Mary Patty-Tito

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

Stephen Xu Zhang
, Shuhua Sun
, Asghar Afshar Jahanshahi
, Aldo Alvarez-Risco
, VerÃ³nica GarcÃa 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	Spanish
Journal	Psychiatry Research
Volume	291
State	Published - 1 Sep 2020

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