Comparing the Impact of COVID-19 on Nurses’ Turnover Intentions before and during the Pandemic in Qatar
Abstract
:1. Background
2. Methods
2.1. Data Collection
2.2. Ethical Approval
3. Statistical Analysis
4. Results
Stress Levels during and before COVID-19
5. Discussion
6. Limitations
7. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
Ethics Approval
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Characteristics | Categories | N | Percentage (%) |
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Gender | Male | 166 | 32.4 |
Female | 346 | 67.6 | |
Marital status | Single | 115 | 22.5 |
Married | 391 | 76.4 | |
Other | 6 | 1.2 | |
Education | Diploma | 43 | 8.4 |
BSN | 408 | 79.7 | |
Graduate Studies | 31 | 11.9 | |
Assigned to a COVID-19 facility | Yes | 309 | 60.4 |
No | 203 | 39.6 | |
Role during crisis | Bedside nurse | 205 | 40 |
Charge Nurse, Coordinator | 307 | 60 | |
Original unit of assignment | Med/surg | 138 | 27 |
Critical Care | 93 | 18.2 | |
Emergency | 78 | 15.2 | |
Pediatrics | 48 | 9.4 | |
Other | 155 | 30.3 | |
Area of assignment in a COVID-19 facility | Not Deployed | 205 | 40 |
Critical Care | 86 | 16.8 | |
Emergency | 49 | 9.6 | |
Quarantine Facilities | 40 | 7.8 | |
Other | 132 | 25.8 | |
Mean | SD | ||
Age | 36.54 | 7.42 | |
Years of experience as a nurse | 6.54 | 4.46 | |
Deployment duration in a COVID-19 facility (n = 307) | 4.36 | 2.41 | |
Frequency | Percentage | ||
Stress level during COVID-19 | No stress | 11 | 2.1 |
Mild | 81 | 15.8 | |
Moderate | 160 | 31.3 | |
Much | 170 | 33.2 | |
Extreme | 90 | 17.6 | |
Stress level before COVID-19 | No stress | 45 | 8.8 |
Mild | 251 | 49 | |
Moderate | 131 | 25.6 | |
Much | 5 | 12.7 | |
Extreme | 20 | 3.9 |
Statistic | df | Sig. | Mean | 95% CI | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
TO before COVID-19 | 0.105 | 512 | 0.000 | 13.24 | 12.83–13.66 |
TO during COVID-19 | 0.089 | 512 | 0.000 | 15.54 | 15.03–16.04 |
Turnover Intention Sig. (2-Tailed) | ||
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Before COVID-19 | During COVID-19 | |
Gender | 0.259 | 0.859 |
Age | 0.031 * | 0.125 |
Marital status | 0.073 * | 0.007 * |
Years of experience | 0.001 * | 0.023 * |
Education | 0.885 | 0.661 |
The original field of expertise | 0.342 | 0.513 |
Working in a COVID-19 designated facility | - | 0.648 |
Role during the pandemic | - | 0.136 |
Deployment | - | 0.047 * |
Deployment duration | - | 0.400 |
Stress level | 0.000 * | 0.000 * |
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Nashwan, A.J.; Abujaber, A.A.; Villar, R.C.; Nazarene, A.; Al-Jabry, M.M.; Fradelos, E.C. Comparing the Impact of COVID-19 on Nurses’ Turnover Intentions before and during the Pandemic in Qatar. J. Pers. Med. 2021, 11, 456. https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm11060456
Nashwan AJ, Abujaber AA, Villar RC, Nazarene A, Al-Jabry MM, Fradelos EC. Comparing the Impact of COVID-19 on Nurses’ Turnover Intentions before and during the Pandemic in Qatar. Journal of Personalized Medicine. 2021; 11(6):456. https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm11060456
Chicago/Turabian StyleNashwan, Abdulqadir J., Ahmad A. Abujaber, Ralph C. Villar, Ananth Nazarene, Mahmood M. Al-Jabry, and Evangelos C. Fradelos. 2021. "Comparing the Impact of COVID-19 on Nurses’ Turnover Intentions before and during the Pandemic in Qatar" Journal of Personalized Medicine 11, no. 6: 456. https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm11060456