Žemaitienė Nida, Kukulskienė Milda, Miglinė Vilma, Kubilienė Loreta, Urbonaitė Gabrielė, Digrytė-Šertvytienė Laura, Norė Aušra, Šmigelskas Kastytis
Faculty of Public Health, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, 44307 Kaunas, Lithuania.
Community Well-Being Center, Mykolas Romeris University, 08303 Vilnius, Lithuania.
Healthcare (Basel). 2021 Sep 29;9(10):1297. doi: 10.3390/healthcare9101297.
In the setting of disasters, people seek information as they hope that knowledge will provide security. This makes the media a critical source of crisis exposure. The aim of the study described in this article was to analyze COVID-19 pandemic-related psychological aspects of media use by healthcare and pharmacy workers in Lithuania and to reveal the subjective effects of media consumption on their psychological well-being. 967 healthcare workers and pharmacists in Lithuania completed an electronic survey, which consisted of questions about the changes in well-being experienced since the beginning of the lockdown and media use in the search for information on COVID-19. It was found that communication might have ambiguous effects on psychological well-being. Excessive, unreliable, misleading, contradictory information and "catastrophizing" were subjectively related to impaired psychological well-being. Objective and reliable, relevant, clear, timely, hopeful and supportive information had a subjective positive effect. Seeking COVID-19-related information many times a day was associated with increased fear of becoming infected with COVID-19, feeling unable to control the risk of contracting COVID-19, fear of infecting relatives with COVID-19 and feeling that other people would avoid interaction with healthcare workers and pharmacists because of their job. General browsing was not consistently associated with COVID-19-related fears.
在灾难背景下，人们寻求信息，因为他们希望知识能带来安全感。这使得媒体成为危机曝光的关键来源。本文所述研究的目的是分析立陶宛医护人员和药剂师在使用媒体方面与新冠疫情相关的心理层面，并揭示媒体消费对其心理健康的主观影响。立陶宛的967名医护人员和药剂师完成了一项电子调查，该调查包含关于自封锁开始以来所经历的幸福感变化以及为获取新冠疫情信息而使用媒体的问题。研究发现，信息交流可能对心理健康产生模糊影响。过多、不可靠、误导性、相互矛盾的信息以及“灾难化思维”在主观上与心理健康受损有关。客观可靠、相关、清晰、及时、充满希望且具有支持性的信息则具有主观积极影响。每天多次搜索新冠疫情相关信息与对感染新冠病毒的恐惧增加、感觉无法控制感染新冠病毒的风险、担心将新冠病毒传染给亲属以及感觉其他人会因他们的工作而避免与医护人员和药剂师互动有关。一般性浏览与新冠疫情相关的恐惧之间没有始终如一的关联。
