Quality of professional life and its association with emotional well-being among COVID-19 physicians and nurses

Azizkhani, Reza; Meibody, Azita Azimi; Sadeghi, Ahmad; Meibody-Tabar, Gloria; Flechon-Meibody, Fleuria; Ataei, Behrooz; Kouhestani, Soheila

Quality of professional life and its association with emotional well-being among COVID-19 physicians and nurses

Authors

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

² Department of Emergency Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

³ Department of Counseling, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

⁴ Department of Pharmacy, French Pharmaceutical Research Center, Metz, France

⁵ Department of Nephrology, French Center for Nephrology and Hemodialysis, Metz, France

⁶ Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

Abstract

Background: The present study was to compare the professional quality of life (ProQOL) and its association with the emotional well-being among the physicians and nurses in contact with COVID-19 patients in Iran and France.
Materials and Methods: The study was performed on 903 nurses and physicians in contact with COVID-19 patients in Iran and France.he subjects completed their demographics online and then answered questions addressing their job stress and emotion associated with their contact with COVID-19 patients and ProQOL. Finally, the collected data were analyzed using the SPSS software (ver. 25).
Results: According to the results of the present study, the degree of contact with COVID-19 patients had a significant role in compassion satisfaction, burnout, and compassion fatigue, with the coefficient effects of 0.459, 0.688, and 0.433, respectively (P < 0.05). The emotional well-being had a significant role in increasing compassion satisfaction (B = 0.505, P < 0.05).
Conclusion: According to the results of the present study, factors such as contact with a COVID-19 patient, emotional well-being, gender, and marital status had a significant effect on dimensions of ProQOL in both Iran and France. Considering that the entire focus of the physicians and nurses is on the health of COVID-19 patients and they have no concentration on improving their emotional state, it seems that supporting them in terms of psychological self-care and considering its indirect impact on the quality of professional performance are of particular significance.

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