Changes in society during covid-19 pandemic: from the point of view of health care workers
Changes in society during covid-19 pandemic: from the point of view of health care workers

Summary/Abstract: Purpose: to define opinions on situation of health care workers during COVID-19 pandemic in Lithuania.Methods: Analysis of research literature sources, systematization, synthesis,generalization, and comparison were applied it the theoretical level. Quantitativeresearch i.e. questionnaire survey and data processing methods were applied inthe empirical research. The collected empirical data was processed using SPSS(Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) program. During data processing,descriptive statistics were used -such as percentiles, mean, mode and standarddeviation, ANOVA test.Results: The results revealed that respondents were most afraid of the health of theirfamily members. They also fear about the health of patients and feel anxiousabout the future in a general sense. Respondents tended to disagree that they feeldissatisfied that they cannot move freely and that they feel powerless to changeanything. Respondents tended to disagree that there was a growing distrust ofpeople, dissatisfaction with changes in life and that there was tension in the family.Assessing the opinion of respondents, what problems will become apparentafter the spread of COVID-19, the results revealed that respondents most agreethat the increase in financial problems; psychological problems and social willincrease. It is partially agreed that people will be afraid to leave the country andvisit public places.Discussion: Our research results did in Lithuania with health care workers actuallyshows the same results about problems arise with fear, anxiety and etc. ata personal level. We can conclude that the main problems that can occur duringa pandemic are financial, social and psychological problems as were mentionedin another researcher’s works. But we can add that health care workers agreed thatsituation is partly controlled in Lithuania, so not in all countries the same result.

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