Predictors of Stress Level Toward COVID-19 Delta Variant Among Healthcare Workers

Abstract

The occurrence of new variants has increased the number of COVID-19 patient cases again and impacted the mental health conditions of health workers on duty at the hospital. This study aims to analyze the relationship between risk factors such as age, gender, resilience, and self-efficacy with the level of stress experienced by health workers. This study used a crosssectional design and was conducted in December 2021 involving 113 health workers of Royal Prima Medan Hospital. The Spearman Rank test was used to analyze the relationship between the predictors and the stress level of health workers (α = 0.05). The analysis showed that the majority of health workers experienced mild stress (67.30%). Rank Spearman test results showed that age (p=0.049; r=0.185), gender (p=0.016; r=0.227), resilience (p=0.000; r= -0.557), and self-efficacy (p=0.000; r=0.343) were significantly associated with the level of stress experienced by health workers. Management needs to pay attention to workload, a safe work environment, and provide training so that health workers can manage and minimize the risk of work stress while providing health services to COVID-19 patients.