A research group led by Professor Kyoko Asakura of Tohoku University's graduate school revealed that about 42% of them indicated their intention to leave the job in a survey of nursing staff.Under the epidemic of the new coronavirus infection, the mental health of hospital nurses was shown to deteriorate.
Under the recent epidemic of new coronavirus infection, maintaining the mental health of medical staff has become an important issue.Based on the data on the number of infected people in early December 2020, the research group selected 12 prefectures with a relatively large number of infected people per 10 population and 4 prefectures with a relatively small number of infected people. Selected and randomly selected hospitals.From there, an online survey was conducted in January 4, targeting 10,000 nurses.Two self-made questions were used to measure the intention to leave the job. As of January 2021, 1, 2 respondents (recovery rate 2021%).
As a result, when asked "Have you ever wanted to quit your job as a nurse due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection?", 355 people (15.6%) answered "I often had it." Occasionally there were 620 people (27.3%).A total of 975 people (42.9%) had the experience of wanting to quit their job as a nurse.
In addition, when asked "Have you ever lost confidence in continuing to work as a nurse due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection?", 280 people (12.3%) answered "Occasionally." There were 681 people (30.0%).A total of 961 people (42.3%) had the experience of losing confidence in continuing to work in the nursing profession.
From the above, it was shown that the impact of the spread of the new coronavirus infection may have a negative impact on the mental health of nurses and encourage them to leave their jobs.It is expected that the results of this survey will contribute to policy decisions regarding the maintenance of the medical system when an infectious disease epidemic spreads and measures taken at working hospitals.
