SELF-CARE AND RELATED FACTORS OF NURSES CARING FOR COVID-19 PATIENTS IN SELECTED GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY
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Background: The well-being of nursing staff has been challenged in the wake of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak throughout the world. Psychological distress in frontline nursing staff caring for COVID-19 patients appeared gradually. Fear, anxiety, depression, psychological symptoms, post-traumatic symptoms, and a general decrease in overall well-being were observed. Self-care activities can help promote the mental and physical health of nurses, thereby enabling them to better cope with stress. Self-care activities include self-compassion, mindfulness, general healthy habits such as quality sleep, a balanced healthy diet, regular exercise, and attending to one's basic needs, to name a few. The self-care must become inherent to nurses to equip them to better care for others. Objectives: To investigate the self-care of nurses caring for COVID-19 patients and related factors. Materials and methods: A cross-sectional descriptive design was used with a sample size of 180 nurses caring for COVID-19 patients at selected government hospitals in Binh Dinh, Vietnam from October 2022 to December 2022. The self-care of nurses caring for COVID-19 patients was examined using the Self-Care Activities Screening Scale. Data analysis was performed in SPSS Version 26.0 using descriptive statistics and analysis of variance (ANOVA). Results: The mean self-care score of nurses caring for COVID-19 patients was 3.13 (SD = 0.25), and health consciousness, nutrition, and physical activity and sleep domains had overall mean of 3.21 (SD = 0.31), 3.05 (SD = 0.36), and 3.09 (SD = 0.30), respectively. Besides, there was a statistically significant association between the level of education, work experience, and self-care of nurses caring for COVID-19 patients (p<0.05). In contrast, there was no statistically significant association between gender and self-care of nurses caring for COVID-19 patients (p>0.05). Conclusions: According to the results, nurses caring for COVID-19 patients had high mean scores for their self-care. The assessment on self-care of nurse respondents caring for COVID19 patients confirmed that health consciousness was the strongest component of self-care, meanwhile, nutrition was the weakest component of self-care. More related continuous training programs on self-care, especially in nutrition, should be developed for nurses caring for COVID19 patients.
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Self-care, nurses, COVID-19
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