PNP Front liner's

Work Experiences: An
Avenue for
Assessing their
Response to COVID –
19 Pandemic
CHAPTER 1
 
The problem and It’s
Background
INTRODUCTION

Pandemics are large-scale outbreaks of

infectious disease that can greatly increase
morbidity and mortality over a wide
geographic area and cause significant
economic, social, and political disruption.
Evidence suggests that the livelihood of
pandemics has increased over the past
century because of increased global travel
and integration, urbanization, changes in
land use, and greater exploitation of the
natural environment (Jones and others
2008; Morse 1995).
 Despite of this medical condition many
people around the world still suffering in this
Illness due to spreading of liquid particles
when they cough, sneeze, breathe, touch
surfaces or objects such as tables, doorknobs
and etc. Other people may become infected
by touching these contaminated surfaces,
then touching their eyes, noses or mouths
without having clean their hands first.
 Pandemics are for the most part disease
outbreaks that become widespread as a
result of the spread of human-to-human
infection. One Beyond the debilitating,
sometimes fatal, consequences for those
directly affect, pandemics have a range of
negative social, economic and political
consequences. These tend to be greater
where the pandemic is a novel pathogen, has
a high mortality and/or hospitalization rate
and is easily spread. (S.E. Davies 2020)  
 Epidemic becomes fast worldwide
many situations happen which is very
challenging at first. Everyone seems
anxious and upset on the difficulties
might be occur in the Health Protocols
execute by Word Health Organization. A
greater impact of pandemic deals with
the people thinks negatively and
despair.
Plagues and epidemics have ravage humanity
throughout its existence, often changing the
course of history. Throughout the course of
history, disease outbreaks have ravage
humanity, sometimes changing the course of
history and, at times, signaling the end of entire
civilizations.  (O. Jarus 2020)
Nowadays as a Pandemic exists worldwide
there are such a different form of a contagious
diseases and illnesses that may result on a
higher impact of risks and morbidity leads to a
post traumatic experiences, stress, issues in the
preparedness in COVID-19.
 Once a pandemic has begun in earnest,
public health efforts often focus on minimizing
its spread. Limiting the spread of a pandemic
can help to reduce the number of total people
who are infected and thus also mitigate some of
the indirect health and economic effects.
Strategies to minimize pandemic spread include
the following: Curtailing interactions between
infect and uninfect populations, Reducing
infectiousness of symptomatic patients and
Reducing susceptibility of uninfect individuals
(Ferguson and others 2005)
 Today, most of the people are face
with different obstacles that happened
during this COVID-19 Pandemic
Especially for children and adolescents
with special needs or disadvantages,
such as disabilities, trauma experiences,
already existing mental health problems
and low socioeconomic status, this may
be a particularly challenging time of
pandemic it can be brought by a
dangerous accumulation or risks in the
mental health of a people nowadays.
 Further, most of the researches
manifest a survey and information legally
about the progress of reducing spread of
a contagious disease that varies of
difficult impact from the Front-liners.
Including the development of new
vaccines, antibiotics and other treatments
and technologies that can be a big help
from the Doctors and Researchers
The novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) is
responsible for more fatalities than the
severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
coronavirus, despite being in the initial stage
of a global pandemic. It is thought that the
index case occurred on December 8, 2019,
in Wuhan, China. Since then, cases have
been export to other Chinese cities, as well
as internationally, highlighting concern of a
global outbreak. The first suspect case in the
Philippines was investigate on January 22,
2020, and 633 suspect cases have been
report as of March
One of them, 183 were in the National
Capital Region of Manila, of whom
many were admit to San Lazaro
Hospital (SLH) in Manila, the national
infectious disease referral hospital. We
describe the epidemiologic and clinical
characteristics of the first two confirm
COVID-19 cases in the Philippines,
including the first death outside China.
 As a COVID-19 Pandemic spreads in the
Philippines the Socio-economic status has
been severely deficient through Lockdowns,
Community Quarantines and have been
impose throughout the country since March
15 as a measure to limit the spread of the
virus. Many people still suffering from now
and being upset to overcome the
challenges that might be happened until
now.
First from the Mental Health with the number
of people struggling in silence and need to
promote a positive mental health. Second,
the impact of learning status of
undergraduate and post graduate students
during COVID-19 pandemic and Lastly, due
to these consequences of daily wage
laborers are unable to pay and the
challenges face by the people cause by a
severe impact of Epidemic in the economy,
growth and development of a people
DEFINITION OF TERMS

Assessment - the evaluation or estimation of the

nature, quality, or ability of someone or
something.

Contagious- spread from one person or organism

to another by direct or indirect contact.

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) - is an
infectious disease caused by a newly
discovered coronavirus. Most people infected
with the COVID-19 virus will experience mild to
moderate respiratory illness and recover without
requiring special treatment.
Fatal- deadly, lethal, mortal apply to
something that has caused or is capable of
causing death.

Frontliner - a person or thing that

operates in an advanced, exposed,
or conspicuous position.

Illness- a disease or period of sickness

affecting the body or mind.
 
Morbidity- Refers to having a disease or a
symptom of disease, or to the amount of
disease within a population.
Mortality- the state of being subject to death.

Pandemic - occurring over a wide geographic area (such as multiple countries or

continents) and typically affecting a significant proportion of the population.
ACRONYM

ECQ – Enhance Community Quarantine

EECQ – Extreme Enhance Community
Quarantine
GCQ – General Community Quarantine
IATF - Inter Agency Task Force
MECQ – Modified Enhance Community
Quarantine
MGCQ – Modified General Community
Quarantine
PNP – Philippine National Police
THEORETICAL
FRAMEWORK
 Drury, Reicher, & Stott, (2020) stated that
the considered application of pertinent and
rigorous social psychological theory and
research to the pandemic is particularly
important because the responses of many
governments appear at times to have been
informed by flawed psychological assumptions

based around notions of panic,

behavioral fatigue, and psychological frailty.

Social psychological theories are the

people’s thoughts, feelings, beliefs and
research are important role to fight the
pandemic. Reliable sources of information,
facts and knowledge’s are needed so that the
 Bavel (2020) asserted that contributions to
the special section make clear, public
reactions to the pandemic have been
contingent on trust, values, leadership,
perceptions of personal and collective
efficacy, collective identity, and social norms
(the latter of which can be both helpful and
unhelpful).
Dealing with this pandemic is unbreakable
on its surface of the problem. People and the
government is making the pandemic more
difficult and challenging to deal with. People’s
lack of trust in the government is making the
situation worst and the government’s
conspiracies perceives people anxious about
what may happen with their lives.
 According to terror management theory (Greenberg,
Pyszczynski, & Solomon, 1986; Greenberg et al., 1990),
people's proximal reactions to health threats may involve
denial, suppression, or immediate actions to reduce the
threat. Then, once threat perceptions are sufficiently
reduced (or if conscious threat perception was bypassed),
death concerns can become non‐conscious. It is during
this phase that people lean into their worldviews. If those
worldviews promote cultural values of self ‐enhancement
or ideologies like nationalism, this has the potential to
increase xenophobia, racism, and other forms of
intergroup discrimination and
outgroup derogation.
 This phenomenon of ‘do‐gooder derogation’
(Minson&Monin, 2012) highlights the need for governments and
public health agencies to be aware of the possible negative
unintended consequences of giving a premature impression that
things are returning to normal. For example, as different territories
move through various stages of easing lockdown restrictions, it
becomes ever more important to highlight the need to maintain
physical distancing to continue to slow the spread of the virus.
The COVID‐19 pandemic is a rapidly developing situation and
the contributions collected in the present special section constitute
only an initial indication of the ways in which social psychology
might draw on its stock of established theory and research
evidence in order to suggest immediate ways forward. Of equal
importance are the possible future directions of research on the
social psychological aspects of the pandemic, and these will need
to be developed to take into account the changing social context. 
    
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
1. What are the primary problems encountered by the
participants in terms of:
1.1 Shortage of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
1.2 Anxiety and fears amongst PNP Front liner and the
community
1.3 Challenges in enforcing social distancing

2. How may the government and PNP organization

affect their response to Covid-19 pandemic?
SCOPE AND LIMITATION

This study seeks to understand and assess the

work experiences of PNP front liner on how they
respond their duties and responsibilities during
the COVID-19 Pandemic and on the struggled
they face when they performing, they duties.
The data is come up from selected front liners
in
Tanza Municipal Police Station.
 
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The Generalization of this present study would be a great
contribution to every PNP Front liner. Vital results of this
investigation could be highly significant and beneficial
specially to the following:

Future Researchers - This study provides the idea to the

future researchers for them to improve their study on the
work experience of frontliners.

PNP Personnel’s – This will help PNP personnel to further

tighten security in times of pandemic. They will know what
they still need to improve such as implementing health
protocols do and should not do and how they can take care of
themselves and the community in the future
CHAPTER 2  
Methodology
RESEARCH
DESIGN
This study is a qualitative research design employing
descriptive method through the use of interview
technique in order to determine the experiences of the
participants in performing their tasks as members of
Front liner in Tanza Municipal Police Station. Based on
Research Methods and Statistics: A Critical Thinking
Approach 3rd edition stated that It is important to
emphasize that descriptive research methods can only
describe a set of observations or the data collected.
(Jackson,S.L.,2009).  
 
SELECTION CRITERIA

The study will involve six participants coming from

the Tanza Municipal Police Station. They were chosen
purposively using the following criteria: frontliner since
the government implement the health protocols and
community quarantine.
 RESEARCH INSTRUMENTS AND
VALIDATION

The present study seek to use a researcher- made

interview guide questionnaire validated by the Chief of Police
for PNP personnel. The guide questions will focus on areas of
the work experiences of the participants that contribute to the
response of the Covid-19 pandemic in the Municipality of
Tanza, and how the assessment of their response affects their
duties and responsibilities and performance as a frontliner.
Likewise the interview guide questions including the following:
trainings, seminars and work experiences and how these skills
contributes the successful response to Covid-19 pandemic.  
DATA GATHERING PROCEDURE
For the purpose to attain the equitable of this study, the
researcher will follow the different treads in data gathering to clinch
its effectiveness of the collection of data that could answer the
research problem on participants’ experiences in performing their
duties as Front liners.
A letter request of interview will prepare by the researchers,
noted by the adviser and endorse by the College of the
Criminology. The letter of request was present to and acknowledge
and approve by the Chief of Police where the participants are
assign.
The researcher set up meeting individually with the operator-
respondents considering their schedule and availability. Using the
interview guide questions, the operator-participants were
interviewed one at time. The interview was recorded and
transcribed. The transcripts were validated to ensure accuracy. The
transcripts were analyzed and interpreted.
ANALYSIS OF DATA
Data Analysis is the process of systematically applying
statistical and/or logical techniques to describe and illustrate,
condense and recap, and evaluate data
indeed, researchers generally analyze for patterns in observations
through the entire data collection phase. Data analysis in qualitative
research can include statistical procedures, many times analysis
becomes an ongoing iterative process where data is continuously
collected and analyzed almost simultaneously. Indeed, researchers
generally analyze for patterns in observations through the entire
data collection phase (Savenye, Robinson, 2004).
Interview Guide Questions
GUIDE QUESTIONS FOR INTERVIEW

1. How do your work experiences affect your duties

and responsibilities to response to the pandemic?

2. What are the work experiences you encounter

during the implementation of different kinds of
community quarantine?

3. Do you experience the discrimination to the

public?

4. How do you deal about your schedule during the

Pandemic?

5. What techniques did you use during your work at

checkpoints?
6. What kinds of strategies did you use to control the
number of people going to public markets, groceries
and super markets?

7. How do you enforce curfews in your areas?

8. How do your work experiences affect the protocols

implemented by the IATF?

9. What are the experiences have you encounter on

how to cope with deficiencies in protective
equipment?

10. How do the work experiences affect your duties

and responsibilities as frontliner to cope with the
anxiety and fears to the community?
11. What are the experiences you encounter to
maintain maximum tolerance on dealing social
distancing to the public?

12. How the anxiety and fears do affects the

hindrances to your duties and responsibilities?

13. How do you deal with your own mental thinking

about the pandemic?

14. What challenges have you encountered in

dealing with the public about social distancing?

15.How do you keep discipline about social

distancing in public places?