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 Volume 10, Issue 2 (February 2023), Pages: 182-191

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 Original Research Paper

Association of nurses' mental well-being and professional quality of life (ProQOL) to their resiliency during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis

 Author(s): 

 Bader A. Alrasheadi *

 Affiliation(s):

 Nursing Department, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Majmaah University, Majmaah 11952, Al Majma'ah, Saudi Arabia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0684-5165

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 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2023.02.022

 Abstract:

This study was conducted in determining the factors that affect nurses’ resiliency while working in public hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic. A cross-sectional design was used and self-administered surveys were completed by 420 nurses. Nurses working in public hospitals have had high levels of resilience and mental well-being during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, with their ProQOL found to be average. Higher levels of mental well-being and ProQOL contributed to developing better resiliency. The study poses the significance of taking preemptive measures on the parts of both the government and the healthcare institutions themselves to assist nursing professionals in enduring disasters such as the pandemic.

 © 2022 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Nurses, Resilience, Public hospitals, COVID-19, Pandemic, Professional quality of life, Mental well-being

 Article History: Received 9 August 2022, Received in revised form 9 November 2022, Accepted 11 November 2022

 Acknowledgment 

The authors would like to thank the Deanship of Scientific of Research at Majmaah University for supporting this work under Project No. R-2022-283.

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 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Alrasheadi BA (2023). Association of nurses' mental well-being and professional quality of life (ProQOL) to their resiliency during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 10(2): 182-191

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