Perceived stress, stress coping strategies, and post-traumatic-growth among healthcare professionals during COVID-19 pandemic

AIM

The purpose of this research was to identify the perceived stress coping strategies, and Post-Traumatic-Growth (PTG) among Iranian healthcare professionals.

DESIGN

A cross-sectional study was applied.

METHODS

This study was conducted among 402 healthcare professionals in northwestern Iran. Participants completed demographic, perceived stress, stress coping strategies, and PTG questionnaires. Multiple linear regression was employed to identify the predictors of perceived stress and PTG.

RESULTS

The overall score of perceived stress was calculated 30.55 (6.18). The problem-oriented strategy was the most common stress coping by healthcare professionals (52.66 (8.72)). Also, the total score of PTG was calculated at 45.72 (30.42). Perceived stress, stress coping strategies (except problem-oriented), and PTG scores were significantly different between hospital and health centres participants (p-value < 0.05). Previous experience in critical situations, crisis-related course, degree, age, department, and stress coping strategies were related to the stress level. Moreover, workplace, department, work experiences, and employment status were the predictors of PTG.

Economic planning and equilibrium growth of human resources and capital in health-care sector: Case study of Iran

CONTEXT

During different planning periods, human resources factor has been considerably increased in the health-care sector.

AIMS

The main goal is to determine economic planning conditions and equilibrium growth for services level and specialized workforce resources in health-care sector and also to determine the gap between levels of health-care services and specialized workforce resources in the equilibrium growth conditions and their available levels during the periods of the first to fourth development plansin Iran.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

In the study after data collection, econometric methods and EViews version 8.0 were used for data processing. The used model was based on neoclassical economic growth model.

RESULTS

The results indicated that during the former planning periods, although specialized workforce has been increased significantly in health-care sector, lack of attention to equilibrium growth conditions caused imbalance conditions for product level and specialized workforce in health-care sector.

CONCLUSIONS

In the past development plans for health services, equilibrium conditions based on the full employment in the capital stock, and specialized labor are not considered. The government could act by choosing policies determined by the growth model to achieve equilibrium level in the field of human resources and services during the next planning periods.

Estimating the marginal effect of socioeconomic factors on the demand of specialty drugs

Given the growing importance and role of drugs in the treatment of diseases, as well as replacement of them rather than expensive and often unsafe procedures, study of socioeconomicfactors affecting future demand for them seems necessary.we seek to examine the extent of to which socioeconomic factors affect specialty medicine use by the patients.using data from questionnaires completed by 280 patients with multiple sclerosis, hemophilia, thalassemia, and chronic kidney disease, we estimate marginal effect of significant variables in probit model.We found that the need for the patient(ME = 0.858), deterioration of the patient (ME = -0.001), household size (ME = 0.0004), House Ownership (ME = -0.002), gender (ME = -0.04), income (ME = -0.0007), education (ME = -0.0021) and job (ME = -0.0021) are significant variables affecting demand for specialty drugs. We conclude that it can be programmed to promote and protect the welfare of patients by specific factors such as income, and largely affect the demand of medication and medical services. Therefore economic aid to these patients should not be limited only to medical subsidies, especially in patients with MS, income and welfare can reduce drug demand.