STRESS IN RELATION TO DESIGNATION

Stress from a job is a result of one's surroundings. These days, job stress has been more

popular and sometimes let the worker feel down or feel discouraged (Mathangi, 2017).

According to Hsu (2019), work stress and its impact on exhaustion and well-being have been an

emerging issue in health-related research. Long working hours and occupational burnout have

been found to be related to different kinds of diseases and even uncontrolled eating disorders.

Job strain and stress are found to be related to emotional exhaustion and depersonalization of

healthcare workers and could affect anxiety and depression or other psychiatric morbidities.

Medical professionals who expand their activities in hospital institutions, experience

situations that lead to stress, as they coexist routinely with pain, suffering and death. They are

subjected to intense work rhythm, long hours, shift work, low wages, complex human relations,

lack of materials and human resources, among other factors that can trigger and potentiate

stress at work (R.P. Ribeiro, Marziale, Martins, Galdino, & P.H.V Ribeiro, 2018). Moreover, in

the service provider’s perspective, the principal aspects distinguished that causes lack of

motivation among health care workers at community setup such as primary health care

facilities are of diverse extent. Some of them are high workload among the workers, inadequate

number of workers, staff deficiencies, an absence of inter and intra-professional exchange of

ideas, and lack of rewarding and positive supervision, including clear and specific career goals

(Aryal, Shastry, Chand, Vinay, Nandakumar, Bhandari, Rawal, & Voora, 2019).

In today’s COVID-19 pandemic, frontline healthcare workers are having to work under

particularly intense stress levels. Krystal and McNeil (2020) affirm, that they must work in
makeshift settings created to handle the overflowing patients from intensive care units and

sometimes with limited access to optimal protective equipment. They often need to cover

additional shifts to atone for the absence of their colleagues who have become ill or

quarantined. They must quickly adapt to medical involvement as they are asked to intervene

outside of their conventional area of medical expertise.

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