Table 3.
Coping strategies for mental health burden among healthcare workers (n = 2166).
| Coping strategies | Occupation |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doctor (n = 770) n(%) | Nurse (n = 479) n(%) | Othersa (n = 848) n(%) | Total (n = 2097) n(%) | p valueb | |
| Getting family support | 580 (74.5) | 359 (69.0) | 629 (72.5) | 1568 (72.4) | 0.101 |
| Positive thinking | 620 (79.6) | 362 (69.6) | 552 (63.7) | 1534 (70.8) | <0.001 |
| Religious/Prayers | 600 (77.0) | 245 (47.1) | 421 (48.6) | 1266 (58.4) | <0.001 |
| Adequate sleep and food intake | 385 (49.4) | 175 (33.7) | 485 (55.9) | 1045 (48.2) | <0.001 |
| Exercise | 278 (35.7) | 181 (34.8) | 240 (27.7) | 699 (32.3) | 0.001 |
| Watching television | 101 (13.0) | 115 (22.1) | 380 (43.8) | 596 (27.5) | <0.001 |
| Getting peer support | 310 (39.8) | 170 (32.7) | 104 (12.0) | 584 (27.0) | <0.001 |
| Learning new things | 55 (7.1) | 58 (11.2) | 270 (31.1) | 383 (17.7) | <0.001 |
| Satisfaction with job achievement (weekly plan) | 50 (6.4) | 89 (17.1) | 119 (13.7) | 258 (11.9) | <0.001 |
| Learn the situation | 92 (11.8) | 41 (8.1) | 124 (14.3) | 258 (11.9) | 0.002 |
| Reading | 46 (5.9) | 83 (16.0) | 113 (13.0) | 242 (11.2) | <0.001 |
| Mindfulness/Meditation | 146 (18.7) | 30 (5.8) | 60 (6.9) | 236 (10.9) | <0.001 |
| Planning for global responses and new ideas | 23 (3.0) | 34 (6.5) | 39 (4.5) | 96 (4.4) | 0.009 |
| Use app SAM | 20 (2.6) | 12 (2.3) | 18 (2.1) | 50 (2.3) | 0.803 |
| Othersc | 23 (3.0) | 112 (21.5) | 62 (7.2) | 197 (9.1) | <0.001 |
Note-those who reported ‘Yes’ to each coping strategy. Multiple answer allowed.
a
Others included pharmacists, laboratory technicians, public health specialists, medical educators, and healthcare administrators.
b
Pearson's Chi-square.
c
Other coping strategies including playing games, farming, gardening, participation in voluntary activities, concentrating on work (working all the time), playing sports at home, staying away from fake news, E-learning, learning for career, cooking, writing stories.