Self-perceived health status, psychological resilience, and life satisfaction of healthcare workers after 2 years of COVID-19 pandemic

Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic not only profoundly changed people’s living and consumption habits but also affected their physical and mental health and life satisfaction. Healthcare workers reportedly have higher anxiety levels than the general population, and their...

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Main Authors: Yu-Ting Chu, In-Chi Hu, Chung-Po Ko, Yu-Kang Chang, Chin-Chih Ho
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Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2024-09-01
Series:Tungs’ Medical Journal
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Online Access:https://journals.lww.com/tmj/fulltext/2024/09001/self_perceived_health_status,_psychological.6.aspx
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description Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic not only profoundly changed people’s living and consumption habits but also affected their physical and mental health and life satisfaction. Healthcare workers reportedly have higher anxiety levels than the general population, and their response to major difficult events, including life, work, and natural and man-made disasters, is affected by their resilience level. Objectives: This study aimed to understand the correlation between healthcare workers’ self-perceived health, psychological resilience, and life satisfaction and to further analyze the mediating effect of psychological resilience between self-perceived health and life satisfaction. Methods: This study adopted a cross-sectional, purpose-sampling survey design to recruit, and select participants aged over 20 years at a regional, teaching hospital in Central Taiwan. The questionnaire included basic data, self-perceived health, psychological resilience, and life satisfaction. This study collected answered questionnaires from 399 (88.7%) respondents. The mediating effect of psychological resilience on the relationship between self-perceived health and life satisfaction was examined using Pearson’s product-moment correlation coefficient analysis and bootstrapping. Results: The mean age was 34.51 ± 9.88 years. Self-perceived health, psychological resilience, and life satisfaction were at good levels. Significant differences were noted in sex, position, and education in terms of psychological resilience and life satisfaction. Psychological resilience partially mediated self-perceived health and life satisfaction. Conclusion: Psychological resilience has a partial mediating effect on healthcare workers’ life satisfaction, indicating an important driving factor for life satisfaction. Furthermore, the psychological process of employees’ resilience can be explained by self‑perceived health.
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spelling doaj-art-da34e96aa7f94241b90a0f1b0481e5992024-11-10T10:24:23ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsTungs’ Medical Journal2949-97202024-09-0118Suppl 1S28S3410.4103/ETMJ.ETMJ-D-24-00003Self-perceived health status, psychological resilience, and life satisfaction of healthcare workers after 2 years of COVID-19 pandemicYu-Ting ChuIn-Chi HuChung-Po KoYu-Kang ChangChin-Chih HoBackground: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic not only profoundly changed people’s living and consumption habits but also affected their physical and mental health and life satisfaction. Healthcare workers reportedly have higher anxiety levels than the general population, and their response to major difficult events, including life, work, and natural and man-made disasters, is affected by their resilience level. Objectives: This study aimed to understand the correlation between healthcare workers’ self-perceived health, psychological resilience, and life satisfaction and to further analyze the mediating effect of psychological resilience between self-perceived health and life satisfaction. Methods: This study adopted a cross-sectional, purpose-sampling survey design to recruit, and select participants aged over 20 years at a regional, teaching hospital in Central Taiwan. The questionnaire included basic data, self-perceived health, psychological resilience, and life satisfaction. This study collected answered questionnaires from 399 (88.7%) respondents. The mediating effect of psychological resilience on the relationship between self-perceived health and life satisfaction was examined using Pearson’s product-moment correlation coefficient analysis and bootstrapping. Results: The mean age was 34.51 ± 9.88 years. Self-perceived health, psychological resilience, and life satisfaction were at good levels. Significant differences were noted in sex, position, and education in terms of psychological resilience and life satisfaction. Psychological resilience partially mediated self-perceived health and life satisfaction. Conclusion: Psychological resilience has a partial mediating effect on healthcare workers’ life satisfaction, indicating an important driving factor for life satisfaction. Furthermore, the psychological process of employees’ resilience can be explained by self‑perceived health.https://journals.lww.com/tmj/fulltext/2024/09001/self_perceived_health_status,_psychological.6.aspxcoronavirus disease 2019; healthcare workers; life satisfaction; psychological resilience; self-perceived health status
spellingShingle Yu-Ting Chu
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Self-perceived health status, psychological resilience, and life satisfaction of healthcare workers after 2 years of COVID-19 pandemic
Tungs’ Medical Journal
coronavirus disease 2019; healthcare workers; life satisfaction; psychological resilience; self-perceived health status
title Self-perceived health status, psychological resilience, and life satisfaction of healthcare workers after 2 years of COVID-19 pandemic
title_full Self-perceived health status, psychological resilience, and life satisfaction of healthcare workers after 2 years of COVID-19 pandemic
title_fullStr Self-perceived health status, psychological resilience, and life satisfaction of healthcare workers after 2 years of COVID-19 pandemic
title_full_unstemmed Self-perceived health status, psychological resilience, and life satisfaction of healthcare workers after 2 years of COVID-19 pandemic
title_short Self-perceived health status, psychological resilience, and life satisfaction of healthcare workers after 2 years of COVID-19 pandemic
title_sort self perceived health status psychological resilience and life satisfaction of healthcare workers after 2 years of covid 19 pandemic
topic coronavirus disease 2019; healthcare workers; life satisfaction; psychological resilience; self-perceived health status
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