{"id":4267,"date":"2024-01-08T08:37:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T08:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/?post_type=abstract&p=4267"},"modified":"2024-01-08T08:37:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T08:37:40","slug":"coping-strategies-among-resident-physicians-at-a-tertiary-hospital-in-davao-city-during-the-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"abstract","link":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/abstract\/coping-strategies-among-resident-physicians-at-a-tertiary-hospital-in-davao-city-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Coping Strategies Among Resident Physicians at a Tertiary Hospital in Davao City During the COVID-19 Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coping Strategies Among Resident Physicians at a Tertiary Hospital in Davao City During the COVID-19 Pandemic<\/h2><\/div>

Sharmiz Maria Tirol Calamba, RN,MD and Shella Akil-Bravo, MD, FÂ鶹ֱ²¥, FPSHPM<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

View Full Text<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Background<\/strong>: The COVID-19 is a significant stressor for the resident physicians. This public health issue augmented the already rigid and demanding residency training.<\/p>\n

Objective<\/strong>: To determine the coping strategies employed by the resident physicians at the Southern Philippines Medical Center during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

Methods<\/strong>: The study was a cross-sectional design using the descriptive-survey research method. A total of 200 resident physicians participated in this study. The instruments used were a self-made sociodemographic profile questionnaire and the 37-item Filipino Coping Strategies Scale, adopted with permission from the developer. The study used frequency and percentage for categorical variables and mean and standard deviations for continuous variables.<\/p>\n

Results<\/strong>: The respondents were primarily female resident doctors (56%), unmarried (83%), with an average age of 30, and with the majority living with their immediate family (54%) with mostly three to four family members at home (64%). Most resident doctors were assigned to COVID-19 wards (52.5%) and managed COVID-19 patients directly (73%). Twenty percent of these respondents working in COVID-19 wards have reported and claimed having pre-existing health conditions. The most prevalent coping strategies employed were religiosity (3.15 \u00b1 0.66) and problem-solving (3.11 \u00b1 0.50). On the other hand, resident doctors rarely turned to overactivity or substance use.<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/strong>: This study has shown that residents most frequently utilized problem-focused (problem-solving) and emotion-focused (spirituality, relaxation\/recreation, and tolerance) strategies. Coping is necessary for resident physicians to confront threats of COVID-19 infection. Psychological-emotional support for the well-being of resident doctors must be in place in every residency training program.<\/p>\n

Key words<\/strong>: coping, strategies, residents, doctors, physicians<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,129],"tags":[16,143,146,147,145,144],"class_list":["post-4267","abstract","type-abstract","status-publish","hentry","category-abstract","category-abstract-2023-volume-61-issue-2","tag-abstract","tag-coping","tag-doctors","tag-physicians","tag-residents","tag-strategies"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/abstract\/4267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/abstract"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/abstract"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/abstract\/4267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4269,"href":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/abstract\/4267\/revisions\/4269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}