Emotional Support and Stress Management in Patients Diagnosed With COVID-19

This is a cross-sectional descriptive study with a research/action design to be carried out
at the Consorci Corporació Sanitària Parc Taulí (CCSPT). The aim of this study is to identify
the knowledge that CCSPT nurses have in relation to care aimed at coping with anxiety, fear
or loneliness and the use that they have made of it in the recent crisis. By its design, the
research/action will allow the training of these nurses to improve nursing care of these
aspects in the future. This is a population-based study, in which all CCSPT nurses who have
carried out care work during the COVID-19 crisis period will be invited to participate. The
variables collected will be age, sex, academic level, usual work shift, care given to reduce
anxiety, fear, loneliness, coping style and self-pity. Quantitative variables will be
described by their mean and standard deviation, while qualitative variables will be described
in absolute and relative frequencies. A linear or non-parametric correlation will be made
between the score on the self-pity and coping scales and the number of actions identified
and/or performed referred to by the nurses and the calculation of the Pearson or Spearman
correlation coefficient, as appropriate. Comparison of the number of actions between high
activity and low activity (70% cut) coping nurses using the Mann-Whitney U test