Browsing by Author "Griškēviča, Ingūna"

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    Healthcare workers’ moral distress during the COVID-19 pandemic : a scoping review
    (2023-06-26) Nagle, Evija; Šuriņa, Sanita; Griškēviča, Ingūna; Department of Health Psychology and Paedagogy
    During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers (HCWs) did not have the opportunity to provide high-quality and standard healthcare services. Research conducted during the pandemic has revealed widespread mental health problems among HCWs. Moral distress was noted as one of the critical issues that limited the performance of HCWs in providing quality care. The purpose of this scoping review was to create an overview of HCWs’ moral distress during the COVID-19 pandemic. The review was conducted according to the Arksey and O’Malley framework. A systematic literature search was performed in five database systems: Medline/PubMed, Science Direct, Scopus, ProQuest, and the Cochrane Library, according to the inclusion/exclusion criteria. Relevant article titles and abstracts were retrieved. The final review included 16 publications identifying the moral distress of HCWs during the pandemic. In total, five themes characterizing the moral distress of HCWs during the COVID-19 pandemic were identified: (1) a level of moral distress during the COVID-19 pandemic; (2) risk factors for moral distress during the COVID-19 pandemic; (3) moral and ethical dilemmas during the COVID-19 pandemic; (4) harm caused by moral distress to HCWs; and (5) intervention methods for reducing moral distress. The pandemic turned a health emergency into a mental health emergency for HCWs.
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    Individual and collective protective responses during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in 10 different countries : Results from the EUCLID online survey
    (2022-09) Koller, Julia E.; Villinger, Karoline; Lages, Nadine C.; Absetz, Pilvikki; Bamert, Melanie; Branquinho, Cátia; Chaves-Avilés, Lourdes; Dimitropoulou, Panagiota; Fernández-Fernández, Ana Lucía; Gaspar de Matos, Margarida; Griškēviča, Ingūna; Gutiérrez-Doña, Benicio; Hankonen, Nelli; Inauen, Jennifer; Jordanova Peshevska, Dimitrinka; Kassianos, Angelos P.; Koļesņikova, Jeļena; Lavrič, Meta; Mitanovska, Tamara; Neter, Efrat; Poštuvan, Vita; Trups-Kalne, Ingrida; Vargas-Carmiol, Jorge; Schupp, Harald T.; Renner, Britta; Department of Health Psychology and Paedagogy; Psychology Laboratory
    Background: In times of unprecedented infectious disease threats, it is essential to understand how to increase individual protective behaviors and support for collective measures. The present study therefore examines factors associated with individual and collective pathways. Methods: Data was collected through an online survey from 4483 participants (70.8% female, M = 41.2 years) across 10 countries from April 15, 2020 to June 2, 2020 as part of the "EUCLID" project (https://euclid.dbvis.de). Structural equation modeling was used to examine individual and collective pathways across and within countries. Results: Overall, the adoption of individual protective behaviors and support for collective measures were high. Risk perception on the individual level and perceived effectiveness at the collective level were positively associated with both individual protective behaviors and support for collective measures. Furthermore, the model explained considerable variance in individual (40.7%) and collective protective behaviors (40.8%) and was largely replicated across countries. Conclusions: The study extends previous research by demonstrating that individual risk perception and perceived effectiveness of collective measures jointly affect individual protective health behaviors and support for collective measures. These findings highlight the need to jointly consider a variety of behavioral actions against infectious disease threats, acknowledging interactions between individual and collective pathways.