Threat & Coping Resilience among Medical & Non Medical Professionals during Pandemic

Abstract

COVID-19 induce fear because of reasons associated with spread, morbidity and mortality, and subsequent societal stigma and discrimination associated with the diagnosis and treatment of the disease [stress & coping, & Lin].Threat and coping appraisal mechanisms, grounded in the protection motivation theory (PMT), have been suggested to be precursors of individuals’ actions to protect against infectious diseases .The individuals’ intent on adopting protective behavior such as social distancing to avoid the adverse outcomes of such a threat. Methods: A sample of 150 subjects of health care & non Health care professionals has participated in the study. Participants completed Covid Threat Scale and coping resilience to assess the threat & coping among Health Care & Non Health Care professionals during Pandemic. Data was analyzed by descriptive and inferential analysis. Results: In this study researcher revealed that workplace and Setting had significant P value 0.001 & 0.0001*. While comparing coping scores & Threat score across gender score, no significance was found. Conclusion: This study, suggests that the Covid pandemic was experienced equally stressful by medical and non-medical professionals. In both groups the Covid related concerns were quite high suggesting that being aware of the disease or in therapeutic environment doesn’t offer any advantage in improving coping.