Research 1 3.
Research 1 3.
Research 1 3.
An Undergraduate Research
Presented to the Faculty of the School of Psychology and Human Services
College of Sciences, Technology and Communication, Inc.
By
Briones, Christy
Marquez, Kimberly
Remo, Christine Mae
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
Healthcare professionals such as doctors, nurses, therapists, and others with a lot of
work because of this, they are more likely to experience health issues.
The pandemic's effects on psychological were one of the main worries. Emotional
exhaustion and burnout have become commonplace for many workers around the world
which a person feel emotionally exhausted and drained as a result of cumulative stress are
and January 2018, there are 2,769 nurses employed at children's hospitals across Italy
who received a web survey. Only 2,205 nurses replied in total (80%), 85 of whom
treating COVID-19 suffer from severe levels of anxiety and despair. Thus, a number of
occupational pressures that are predicted to become more intense during the COVID-19
exhaustion and one of them is the level of resilience of workers, especially the healthcare
adversity. Health workers are primarily concerned with helping others. Health workers
can benefit from resilience courses since they are professionally designed programs that
can help them acquire ability to preserve physical and emotional health, as well as social
relationships.
Jiang, Sun, & Li (2021) proved that resilience limits the mediation of emotional
particularly the ones that may require them to manage a large workload and continuously
shifting priorities. Resiliency balances emotional exhaustion and gives you the power to
Thus, this study will provide an evidence-based overview of the level of resiliency
This study determine the level of resiliency and level of emotional exhaustion
1.1 Age
1.2 Sex
4. Is there a significant difference in the level of resiliency when the respondents are
exhaustion of respondents?
HYPOTHESES
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
….………….
This theory serve as the foundation It is also essential for the researchers to have
background knowledge regarding the level of resiliency and emotional exhaustion among
health workers.
THEORETICAL PARADIGM
Analysis of the
Demographic Profile: significant difference
Age when the respondents
are grouped according
Sex to demographic profile
Analysis of the
significant relationship
between level of
resiliency and level of
emotional exhaustion
The input box, as illustrated in Figure 1, comprises the information needed from
the study participants which includes their demographic profile in terms of (1) age and
(2) sex. The figure 1 also contains the level of resiliency and level of emotional
exhaustion.
The process box shows the method needed which is the analysis of the
significant difference and significant relationship of the level of resiliency and level of
emotional exhaustion of the gather data from the questionnaires accomplish by the
respondents.
The output box contains the output of the research. Intervention program which
include action plan for building resiliency and consultation to manage emotional
exhaustion
This study, with the aim of the researchers, is noted to be beneficial to the to the
To the Health Workers , this study help health workers understand the
importance of their health and well-being. it also help them to have a knowledge about
information in their search for better ways and means to improve the health workers and
To the future researchers, this study is serves as their preference and gives them
reliable information and idea to pursuing their future research. This is may also serve as
For students who want to become health care workers, so they can have
advanced knowledge of what challenges they may face and how to overcome it.
To Community, This study can help the community to bring health benefits to all
patients and to provide good quality of care and good patient safety.
The researchers used two sets questionnaires to find the level of resiliency and
problem's what, when, where, and how questions instead of its why.
The researchers used Pearson r correlation to measures the strenght of the linear
DEFINITION OF TERMS
The following terms are defined conceptually and operationally for the easy
a result of accumulated stress from your personal or work lives, or a combination of both.
Health workers - Health workers is the one who give care and services to those
person whose in need. Those health workers assures that people have a healthy well
being. They’re taking care everyone mentally, physically and emotionally which can be
Nurse - provide treatment, support and care services for people who are in need
of nursing care due to the effects of aging, injury, illness or other physical or mental
impairment. They are trained enough to identify basic information about the illness and
have a different roles in helping not only the patients but also the doctors.
services before, during and after pregnancy and childbirth. They are the one who guide
pregnant woman to have a healthy lifestyle which turns in having a healthy infant.
under any accredited government and non government organization. Barangay health
workers is like a nurse helping the doctor, the difference is just they’re helping the wife.
trigger what doctors call a respiratory tract infection. The government implement the
community quarantine which no one is allowed to leave the house without having
This chapter presents the review of related literature and studies that serve as a
frame of reference that is relevant in this study. The researchers extracted information
Related literature
Local
Age
resilience was lowest in the youngest age group and successively higher in the older age
groups. Age differences in resilience, we found that relatively older employees who are
forced to work showed higher resilience. than younger employees one year into the
pandemic. Some of young health workers have low resilience because they are in
adjustment period in our crisis, Older workers were more likely to re-frame the crisis and
increasing age in men, but the association was emotional exhaustion bimodal in women,
with women aged between 20-35 and over 55 years showing the highest level.
Sex
According to, Dr. Rontgene Solante, (2021) Some healthcare workers at Manila's
San Lazaro Hospital (SLH) have also resigned due to exhaustion and overseas job
women's health, social, and economic well-being around the world. First and foremost,
women's resiliency is driving the health response: women account for nearly 70% of the
health-care workforce, putting them at higher risk of infection. At the same time, due to
school and child care facility closures, as well as long-standing gender inequalities in
unpaid work, women are shouldering a large portion of the burden at home.
Resiliency
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every country in the globe, and those
working in the field of healthcare are essential to controlling this emergency. Therefore,
it is crucial to maintain the mental health and emotional resilience of healthcare
providers, especially during these extremely difficult times. He also said that giving
important advice on how to handle the emotional and mental strain of the current
situation to various healthcare professionals are strengthen the resilience of the Filipino
healthcare workers are leading to fight against the pandemic. Dr. Rio L. (Magpantay,
2021)
Emotional Exhaustion
for patients as colleagues become ill with COVID-19 or leave a field that was already
gravely understaffed before the pandemic. Also the health administration reports a
nursing shortage of more than 100,000, pushing those remaining to work long hours for
experiencing a record spike in infections, driven by the delta variant. (MANILA, 2021)
Related Literature
Foreign
Age
Aged 94–98 years with strong resilience were 43.1 percent more likely than those
with low resilience to live to be 100 years old in this study. Stephanie Mac Leod M., et al
(2016). Age was linked to lower levels of emotional tiredness in males. Emotional
tiredness levels in women were low at 20 years old, then grew till 30 years old.
Emotional exhaustion levels were lower between the ages of 30 and 50. Resilience has
been studied further as a factor in lifespan, with findings showing that resilience has the
Sex
Women who are overworked are more prone than males to face work-family
conflict and emotional exhausted. When people work fewer hours than they want, males
are more likely than women to get emotionally exhausted as a result of work family
conflict. Cristina Rubino (2013). Female personnel's resilience was much lower than
male personnel's. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dai et al. (2020) discovered a
substantial difference between male and female medical staff in terms of their level of
widespread in the health worker industry and can put workers' health at risk.
Resilience
According to Pedro Ferreira and Sofia Gomez., (2021) Despite the fact that burnout
is a well-studied symptom, there is still much to learn about it during a pandemic like the
and burnout is still an understudied issue, according to the Job Demands-Resources (JD-
R) paradigm. The major purpose of this study is to see how mental resilience affects the
three characteristics of burnout among healthcare personnel when they are subjected to a
been working long hours and are at a significant risk of infection, putting their mental
health at danger. This can have a negative psychological and physical impact on nurses.
Burnout is brought on by a high level of stress at work. Burnout is frequent in the nursing
field, and it may have a negative impact on nurses' well-being and productivity. During a
pandemic, it's critical to identify elements that might help frontline nurses maintain their
Additional, Luceño-Moreno, Lourdes, et al., (2022) The goal of this study is to see
anxiety, burnout, and resilience in Spanish healthcare workers between the first and
second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, based on a variety of demographic and work-
related variables.
Exhaustion
COVID-19 has spread. Emotional tiredness is a risk for healthcare professionals. Before
the COVID-19 epidemic, between 31 to 54.3 percent of clinicians in the United Kingdom
greater now.
Furthermore M Ángeles López-Cabarcos, et al (2019) The nature of public
healthcare underscores the importance of not only comprehending the role of emotional
exhaustion in the relationship between job demands and desirable employee attitudes, but
also of combining certain job resources with other organizational variables to moderate
employees' feelings of emotional exhaustion. The purpose of this paper is to discuss this
topic.
predicting emotional tiredness. Furthermore, the current study aims to improve our
patient engagement, can enhance the impact of job resources while reducing the impact
of job demands.
Related Studies
Local
Resilience
person's ability to 'bounce back' or recover rapidly after a stressful experience, may aid
nurses in coping with stressors and enduring the burden they bring. According to Cooper,
Brown, Rees, & Leslie, 2020, personal resilience may assist nurse’s better cope with the
stress created by the COVID-19 pandemic in the setting of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Personal resilience has been shown to protect nurses during disasters (Labrague,
Hammad, et al., 2018; Turner, 2015) and disease outbreaks (Duncan, 2020), implying
that improving nurses' hardiness and coping abilities can help them handle and deal with
Exhaustion
profession that was already dangerously understaffed before the pandemic. The country is
experiencing a record increase in infections, fueled by the delta variant, with the health
department reporting a nursing shortage of over 100,000, forcing those left to work long
Related Studies
Foreign
Age
According to Erica S. Edwards (2015) Older health workers struggle from their
resiliency because they feel loss and rejected because of their age Older adults are rarely
associated with resilience. Older people suffer from loss and decline as a result of their
age. Individuals in this age group actually have a higher level of subjective well-being
than those in any other age group. In a world of turmoil, change, and chronic illness,
"resilience thinking" in older adults allows them to recover from adversity, thrive with a
Furthermore, men burnout levels decreased as they got older, but in women, the
relationship was bimodal, with women aged 20–35 and over 55 showing the highest
Sex
result, as a precondition for individual and community social sustainability. Erin Bekez
(2010)
Moreover Benjamin Artz et al., (2021) Women report more exhaustion because
their work-family conflict is primarily due to intuitive causal factors such as increased
Indeed, the literature has identified men and women's perceived or expected social roles
as a major source of conflict between work and family at times (Gutek et al., 1991; Eagle
et al., 1997).
older, but in women, the relationship was bimodal, with women aged 20–35 and over 55
health professionals is a study conducted by Isabel Manzanares et al., (2021) that aimed
among medical staff from a public hospital in Barcelona, Spain. The cited study used
descriptive and cross-sectional. The research conforms with the STROBE cross-sectional
study checklist. The cited study showed the COVID-19 epidemic medical professionals
and nurses have exhibited outstanding resiliency. Their capacity to overcome challenges
shows their tenacity and commitment in the midst of a crisis in a public health system
Emotional Exhaustion
The The Impact of Job Stress and State Anger on Turnover Intention Among
Nurses During COVID-19: The Mediating Role of Emotional Exhaustion a study by Syed
Haider Ali Shah et al., (2021) This study aims to determine the relationship between job
stress state rage, emotional exhaustion, and intention to leave the job. This study
hypothesizes that nurses' intentions to quit their jobs as a result of job-related stress and
state anger during COVID-19. 335 registered nurses who care for patients with COVID-
intentions. The cited study that nursing management need to be aware of nurses' plans to
leave the profession since they are dealing with it first-hand as patients in the COVID-19
CHAPTER III
Research Methodology
This chapter discusses the research method that was used in the study. It included
the research design, research locale, research population and sample, research
instruments, data gathering procedures, and statistical treatment to present and interpret
the data.
Research Design
Research Locale
The researchers conducted their study at Lucena City where the respondents
work. The researchers chose Lucena City to be the locale of this study after doing
hospitals in the city and it has many health workers. Dahil ito ang capital ng quezon
Purposive Sampling is the technique used to select the target respondents of the
study. Sixty (60) health workers served as the respondents of the study. Respondents of
this research are men or women, young or elderly such as nurses, barangay health
workers and midwifery. Data kung ilang hospital sa lucena. It doesn’t matter kung private
or public pinagwoworkan.
Research Instruments
resilience, or one's ability to recover from stressful situations, tragedies, or trauma. The
capacity to survive in the face of difficulties is determined by resilience. CD-RISC
contains 25 items, which are rated on a five-point Likert scale and range from 0 (“Not
true at all”) to 4 (“True nearly all the time”). Possible scores thus range from 0 to 100.
The Emotional Exhaustion (EE) scale, which has nine items, assesses sentiments
of being emotionally exhausted and weary at work. Higher scores indicate a higher
conduct surveys in the municipality of Lucena City. The researchers go and find the
target respondents which are 60 healthcare workers. Survey questionnaires will be given
to determine the level of Resiliency and Emotional Exhaustion. The researchers will not
give a time limit for the respondents to answer the questionnaires. After the respondents
The following statistical measures were utilized to interpret the data gathered.
The researcher will use Frequency and Percentage Distribution to identify and
separate the demographic profile of the respondents in terms of age and sex.
f
%= N ×100
Where:
% - percent
f - frequency
N - number of classes
In the statement of problems no. 2 and 3, the researcher used the Weighted
Arithmetic Mean (WAM) to determine the level of Resiliency and Emotional Exhaustion.
Where:
W - weighted average
In the statement of problems no. 4 and 5, the researcher will use the T-test to
know the significant difference in the level of Resiliency and Emotional Exhaustion
t - t value
Lastly, in the statement of problem no. 6, the researcher used Pearson r to find out
Where:
R - correlation coefficient
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