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Developing and testing a measure of COVID-19 organizational support of healthcare workers – results from Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia

S. X. Zhang,Shuhua Sun,4 Authors,Ross Mary Patty-Tito

2020 · DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113174
Psychiatry Research · 96 Citations

TLDR

A brief 8-item measure of COVID-19 organizational support has three dimensions: work support, personal support, and risk support that demonstrated criterion validity of predicting anxiety and satisfaction.

Abstract

Highlights • We devised a brief 8-item measure of COVID-19 organizational support (COVID-OS).• The measure has three dimensions: work support, personal support, and risk support.• All three dimensions demonstrated criterion validity of predicting anxiety and satisfaction.• Work support discriminated healthcare workers with minimal and mild anxiety.• Personal support discriminated between people with mild and moderate anxiety.