Perceived Threat, Emotion Regulation and Burnout Among Health Care Professionals in Government and Private Setup During Covid-19: A Comparative Study

Abstract

COVID-19 virus has impacted the whole world to a great extent resulting in millions of people losing their life battling the spread of the virus in their bodies. To combat the situation frontline workers played a crucial role by extending their services in terms of working for long hours than usual, working in day and night shifts on rotational basis, living away from their own families and more. The current study aimed to assess and compare Perceived Threat, Emotion Regulation and Burnout among Health Care Professionals in Government and Private setup during COVID-19. A sample of 60 Health Care Professionals (30 Government and 30 Private setups between age range of 23 years to 55 years. Purposive sampling was used in cross sectional study. The results were analyzed using t-test for difference between the two groups. SPSS version 22.0 was used. The results indicated that both the groups had moderate level of Perceived Threat however there was no significant difference in Perceived Threat. Both groups had Mild level of difficulties in Emotion Regulation however there was no significant difference in both the groups. Both the groups had Moderate level of Work, Personal and Client- Related Burnout however there was no significant difference in both the groups.