RESEARCH ARTICLE
The Role of Perceived Social Support and Resilience in Predicting the Mental Health of Healthcare Professionals During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study from Indonesia
Ahmad Gimmy P. Siswadi1, 2, *, Arina Shabrina1, Achmad Djunaidi1, Aulia Iskandarsyah1
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2023Volume: 16
E-location ID: e187435012212220
Publisher ID: e187435012212220
DOI: 10.2174/18743501-v15-e221222-2022-69
Article History:
Received Date: 8/8/2022Revision Received Date: 21/11/2022
Acceptance Date: 23/11/2022
Electronic publication date: 19/01/2023
Collection year: 2023
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Background:
The COVID-19 pandemic had a tremendous impact on Healthcare Professionals (HCPs). Social support and resilience were seen as protective factors for mental health problems. This study aimed to investigate the role of perceived social support and resilience in predicting Healthcare Professionals’ mental health during the outbreak in Indonesia.
Methods:
202 HCPs (143 women and 59 men) completed a digital self-reported survey during the outbreak. A cross-sectional study was applied, and participants were recruited through a purposive sampling technique. The online survey collected information on sociodemographics, perceived social support, resilience, and mental health problems. Perceived social support was measured by The Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS), resilience by the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC)–10, and mental health problems by the Self-Report Questionnaire (SRQ). Multivariate regression was applied to analyze the data.
Results:
Results indicated that a high resilience score was associated with low scores for depression, anxiety, and somatoform symptoms (β = -4.72, p = 0.000). On the contrary, perceived social support did not predict mental health or PTSD symptoms (β = -0.56, p = 0.412).
Conclusion:
Considering the role of resilience in reducing mental health problems, we suggest government and health authorities design an intervention program to increase HCPs’ resilience.
