Cuartero-Castañer María Elena, Hidalgo-Andrade Paula, Cañas-Lerma Ana J
Philosophy and Social Work Department, Universitat de les Illes Balears, 07122 Palma, Spain.
School of Psychology, Universidad de Las Américas, Quito 17041, Ecuador.
Healthcare (Basel). 2021 Apr 29;9(5):515. doi: 10.3390/healthcare9050515.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of healthcare workers and their professional quality of life. This quantitative cross-sectional study aims at exploring the professional quality of life, work engagement, and self-care of healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador. A convenience sample of 117 participants completed an online voluntary and anonymous survey between April and July 2020. It contained a sociodemographic section, the Professional Quality of Life questionnaire V, the work engagement scale, and the scale of self-care behaviors for clinical psychologists. Results show that healthcare workers have an average quality of life with high levels of compassion satisfaction and average levels of compassion fatigue and burnout. Data also indicate that the sample frequently engaged in self-care practices and had high levels of work engagement. The regression analyses reveal that gender, the number of patients per week, the perceived fairness of the salary, among other variables are possible predictors of professional quality of life, frequency of self-care practices, and engagement. This study contributes to the understanding of these variables among healthcare professionals in Ecuador. These results should be considered when planning policies and prevention intervention efforts to promote professionals' wellbeing.
新冠疫情凸显了医护人员的重要性及其职业生活质量。这项定量横断面研究旨在探讨厄瓜多尔新冠疫情期间医护人员的职业生活质量、工作投入度和自我护理情况。2020年4月至7月期间，117名参与者组成的便利样本完成了一项在线自愿匿名调查。调查包含社会人口统计学部分、职业生活质量问卷V、工作投入量表以及临床心理学家自我护理行为量表。结果显示，医护人员的生活质量处于中等水平，同情满意度较高，同情疲劳和职业倦怠处于中等水平。数据还表明，该样本经常进行自我护理，工作投入度较高。回归分析显示，性别、每周患者数量、对薪资公平性的认知等变量可能是职业生活质量、自我护理频率和工作投入度的预测因素。本研究有助于了解厄瓜多尔医护人员中的这些变量。在制定促进专业人员福祉的政策和预防干预措施时，应考虑这些结果。
