Evaluating the mental health status, help-seeking behaviors, and coping strategies of Canadian essential workers versus non-essential workers during COVID-19: a longitudinal study.
In: Anxiety, stress, and coping, Jg. 37 (2024-05-01), Heft 3, S. 334-347
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Objective: This study examined mental health symptoms, help-seeking, and coping differences between Canadian essential workers (EWs) versus non-EWs, as well as common COVID-related concerns and longitudinal predictors of mental health symptoms among EWs only.
Design: An online, longitudinal survey ( N = 1260; response rate (RR) = 78.5%) assessing mental health and psychosocial domains amongst Canadian adults was administered during the first wave of COVID-19 with a six-month follow-up ( N = 821; RR = 53.7%).
Methods: Cross tabulations and chi-square analyses examined sociodemographic, mental health, and coping differences between EWs and non-EWs. Frequencies evaluated common COVID-related concerns. Linear regression analyses examined associations between baseline measures with mental health symptoms six months later amongst EWs.
Results: EWs reported fewer mental health symptoms and avoidance coping than non-EWs, and were most concerned with transmitting COVID-19. Both groups reported similar patterns of help-seeking. Longitudinal correlates of anxiety and perceived stress symptoms among EWs included age, marital status, household income, accessing a psychologist, avoidant coping, and higher COVID-19-related distress.
Conclusions: COVID-19 has had a substantial impact on the mental health of Canadian EWs. This research identifies which EWs are at greater risk of developing mental disorders, and may further guide the development of pandemic-related interventions for these workers.
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Evaluating the mental health status, help-seeking behaviors, and coping strategies of Canadian essential workers versus non-essential workers during COVID-19: a longitudinal study.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Muthumuni, N ; Sommer, JL ; El-Gabalawy, R ; Reynolds, KA ; Mota, NP |
Zeitschrift: | Anxiety, stress, and coping, Jg. 37 (2024-05-01), Heft 3, S. 334-347 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2005- : London : Routledge ; <i>Original Publication</i>: Chur ; New York : Harwood Academic Publishers ; Reading, Berkshire, UK : Distributed by STBS Ltd., c1992-, 2024 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 1477-2205 (electronic) |
DOI: | 10.1080/10615806.2023.2235294 |
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