Effects of Occupational Stress, Self-Efficacy and Mental Health during the Pandemic on Hospital Sanitation Workers in Malaysia

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Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01632787221112079" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01632787221112079</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01632787221112079" target="_blank" >10.1177/01632787221112079</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Effects of Occupational Stress, Self-Efficacy and Mental Health during the Pandemic on Hospital Sanitation Workers in Malaysia

Original language description

COVID-19 rapidly spread across the world, constituting a public health disaster unlike any other experienced in decades. The impact exerted on workplaces and their employees was dramatic, and an immense burden fell on healthcare provision globally. Along with “front-line” healthcare staff, sanitation workers at hospitals also had to cope with additional workloads, making them vulnerable to psychological trauma and affecting their quality of life at establishments. This study investigated how the factors of occupational stress, self-efficacy (belief in the capacity to carry out a task well) and mental health altered the WRQoL (Work-Related Quality of Life) of employees carrying out sanitation duties at hospitals in Malaysia. To this end, a survey translated into the Malay language was conducted among 449 such workers during a so-called “recovery movement control order” (RMCO), i.e. quarantine and control measures pertaining to an outbreak of Coronavirus disease. Research involved co-variance-based structural equation modeling (SEM), performed in IBM-AMOS-26 software, in order to discern the causal relationship of the aforementioned factors on WRQoL. Results revealed a high level of occupational stress, diminished self-efficacy and poor mental health among the employees surveyed. Such stress directly impacted the WRQoL of the second factor alongside an indirect effect on that of the third, i.e. anxiety stemming from potentially catching the virus and the experience of having to disinfect facilities for treating patients, undertake cleaning duties, and move corpses.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50201 - Economic Theory

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Evaluation and the Health Professions

ISSN

0163-2787

e-ISSN

1552-3918

Volume of the periodical

45

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

313-324

UT code for WoS article

000824942200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85133835033