Perceived Risk and Mental Health Problems among Healthcare Professionals during COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring the Mediati
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Perceived Risk and Mental Health Problems among Healthcare Professionals during COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring the Mediating Effects of Resilience and Coronavirus Fear Murat Yıldırım 1,2
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& Gökmen Arslan & Ahmet Özaslan
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Accepted: 24 October 2020/ # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract
During coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, healthcare professionals were particularly at high-risk of developing symptoms of mental health problems due to being on the frontline in the battle against COVID-19. This study examined the mediating roles of resilience and coronavirus fear in the relationship between perceived risk and mental health problems among healthcare professionals including doctors and nurses who were actively treating patients confirmed with COVID-19. We recruited 204 healthcare professionals (50% females) with a mean age of 32.92 years (SD = 7.01). Results showed that perceived risk and coronavirus fear positively predicted depression, anxiety, and stress while resilience negatively predicted those mental health problems. Coronavirus fear mediated the relationship between perceived risk and resilience, depression, anxiety, and stress. Additionally, resilience mitigated the effect of coronavirus fear on depression, anxiety, and stress. This study is among the first indicating the importance of resilience and fear as a critical mechanism that explains the relationship between perceived risk and mental health problems among health professionals directly caring for COVID-19 patients. Keywords COVID-19 . Mental health problems . COVID-19 perceived risk . Resilience . COVID-19 fear . Healthcare professionals
* Murat Yıldırım [email protected]; [email protected]
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Department of Psychology, Faculty of Science and Letters, Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University, Erzurum Yolu 4 Km, 04100 Ağrı, Turkey
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Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
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Department of Psychological Counseling and Guidance, Faculty of Education, Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Burdur, Turkey
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Department of Child Mental Health and Diseases, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey
International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction
Globally, as of 10 October 2020, more than 36.8 million people have been affected by COVID-19 with 1.067,114 deaths, while Turkey registered 332.382 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 8.722 deaths (Center for Systems Science and Engineering 2020). As in many other countries, the Turkish government implemented a wide range of COVID-19-related measures to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 such as partial lockdown, travel restrictions, staying home, and withdrawal from close social contact with friends and relatives outside their household except for essentials (Yıldırım and Arslan 2020). With the emergence of COVID19, people can develop various mental health problems or face with worsening existing health conditions. Although the experience of mental health problems is an inevitable part of life, it may become more severe and
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