View Points on Psychological Immunity of Healthcare Professionals From the Impact of COVID-19
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Background: The world is rapid changes that affect many dimensions results in their adaptation and cause anxiety and mental health problems.
Objective: To find the definition, components, and guidelines to enhance psychological immunity among healthcare professionals.
Methods: A qualitative research was undertaken among 16 participants, aged over 30 years, who have worked in Thailand including medical physicians, dentists, pharmacist, registered nurses, and public health officers. Participants were recruited by snowball or chain sampling. Data were collected by in-depth interviewing with a semistructured questionnaire, then analyzed by a reflexive thematic analysis.
Results: The informants specified the definition of psychological immunity as people can protect their minds from severe to mild. Components of psychological were as people must be able to control themselves, including their thought, emotions, and expressions and no react quickly; people need to practice often to reduce the impact by optimism; people can be face and overcome them; and people need to know own abilities, feelings, thoughts and goals. Way to had psychological immunity were opening their mind to understand and learn.
Conclusions: The results of the interviews were consistent and different in some issue with prior domestic and abroad research. To give importance for thoughts in addition to a person’s emotions and behavior, adjust perspective, and be hopeful.
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