Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Medicine (Baltimore). 2024 Jul 26;103(30):e38594. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000038594.
With the creation of a social distancing policy due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), home visit workers are under mental stress as they are treated as the source of infection for COVID-19. Since door-to-door rental equipment examiners and gas inspectors must perform their duties even in the COVID-19 situation, they are being discriminated against so severely. The purpose of study was to examine the mediating role of perceived stress on the relationship between risk perception and fear. Data was collected data through labor unions among 275 home visiting workers who examine rental home appliance equipment or inspecting gas. On-line survey was conducted to assess COVID-19 risk perception, fear, perceived stress, and demographic characteristics. The data was analyzed using PROCESS Macro (Model 4). The results of the study showed that stress plays an important role in increasing COVID-19 fears when COVID-19 risk perception increases. Meanwhile, it was found that COVID-19 fear decreased when the level of perceived stress decreased. To reduce the impact of COVID-19 risk perception on COVID-19 fears, appropriate educational programs to reduce stress should be developed for home visit workers. Policymakers need to develop online or mobile Infectious disease education programs for COVID-19 risk at work and establish policies to apply legal education.
由于 2019 年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）实施了保持社交距离政策，上门服务工作者承受着心理压力，因为他们被视为 COVID-19 的感染源。由于上门租赁设备检查人员和煤气检查员即使在 COVID-19 情况下也必须履行职责，他们受到了如此严重的歧视。本研究旨在检验感知压力在风险认知与恐惧之间关系中的中介作用。通过工会收集了 275 名上门检查租赁家电设备或检查煤气的上门服务工作者的数据。通过在线调查评估了 COVID-19 风险认知、恐惧、感知压力和人口统计学特征。使用 PROCESS Macro（模型 4）对数据进行分析。研究结果表明，当 COVID-19 风险认知增加时，压力在增加 COVID-19 恐惧方面起着重要作用。同时，当感知压力水平降低时，COVID-19 恐惧也会降低。为了降低 COVID-19 风险认知对 COVID-19 恐惧的影响，应为上门服务工作者制定适当的减轻压力的教育计划。政策制定者需要为工作中的 COVID-19 风险制定在线或移动传染病教育计划，并制定应用法律教育的政策。
