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Gholipour N, Ghanbari A, Esmaeili R, Nazari R, Sharif-Nia H. Nurses’ Resilience and Intention to Care for COVID-19 Patients: The Role of Demographic Factors. CPR 2024; 3 (1) :33-40
URL: http://cpr.mazums.ac.ir/article-1-130-en.html

Background and Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic has posed a unique and professional challenge for the health system and healthcare providers, particularly nurses. Maintaining and enhancing nurses’ intention to care for hospitalized COVID-19 patients is a crucial aspect of this challenge, and the factors related to this intention must be identified and managed. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the relationship between nurses’ resilience and their intention to care for COVID-19 patients. The role of certain demographic characteristics in this relationship was also analyzed.
Materials & Methods: This descriptive correlational study was conducted between July and September 2021 using a convenience sampling method to select 215 nurses working in four public hospitals in Amol. The number of participants from each center was determined in proportion to the number of nurses working in the COVID-19 wards and their level of cooperation. Data were collected using a demographic information checklist, the Connor–Davidson resilience scale (CD-RISC), and the nurses’ intention to care scale (NICS), and were analyzed using SPSS software, version 26. Mean±SD, frequency, and percentage were used to describe the data. Additionally, independent t-tests, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient, and linear regression analysis were employed to analyze the data.
Results: The mean resilience score was 64.77±13.13, while the intention to care for COVID-19 patients was 186.85±31.70. The correlation between these variables was not statistically significant (P=0.567, r=0.039). Regarding demographic variables, intention to care was statistically significant only with marital status (P=0.01); specifically, married nurses were approximately 11% less likely than single nurses to care for these patients (95% CI, -1.45%, -22.42%; P=0.025; B=-11.44). The comparison of resilience scores was also statistically significant only in relation to work experience (P=0.016) and gender (P=0.001).
Conclusion: Resilience is not a predictor of nurses’ intention to care for COVID-19 patients. Given the role of certain demographic characteristics in predicting nurses’ intention to care for patients, it is recommended that practitioners and researchers, while considering these characteristics, examine other determinants to identify and promote nurses’ intention to care for COVID-19 patients.