Attitudes and Feelings towards the Work of Teachers Who Had a School Nurse in Their Educational Center during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Borja Nicolás Santana-López (), María Desamparados Bernat-Adell, Luciano Santana-Cabrera, Esteban Gabriel Santana-Cabrera, Gloria Raquel Ruiz-Rodríguez and Yeray Gabriel Santana-Padilla
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Borja Nicolás Santana-López: Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Universitario de Gran Canaria Doctor Negrín, 35010 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
María Desamparados Bernat-Adell: Nursing Department, Universitat Jaume I, 12006 Castellón de la Plana, Spain
Luciano Santana-Cabrera: Intensive Care Unit, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Insular Materno-Infantil de Gran Canaria, 35016 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Esteban Gabriel Santana-Cabrera: Colegio de Educación Infantil y Primaria Los Giles, 35010 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Gloria Raquel Ruiz-Rodríguez: Consejería de Educación, Universidades, Cultura y Deportes, 35001 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Yeray Gabriel Santana-Padilla: Emergency Surgery Unit, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Insular Materno-Infantil de Gran Canaria, 35016 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

IJERPH, 2023, vol. 20, issue 4, 1-14

Abstract: The objective of this study was to analyze the influence of the availability of a health professional on the beliefs, attitudes, and work feelings of teaching staff when facing the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a two-phase study: In the first one, the Delphi technique was used to update an instrument used by the authors in a previous investigation in 2020. The second phase was a cross-sectional, descriptive, and comparative study, carried out through an electronic questionnaire distributed among the teaching staff of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands (Spain), during the first two months of the 2021/22 academic year, in the midst of the fifth wave of COVID-19. Data were analyzed using Pearson’s chi-squared test and the linear trend test. The reasons for advantages were analyzed and the dimensions of the questionnaire were compared between the groups studied (with or without a healthcare professional in the center). Out of 640 teachers in the study, 14.7% ( n = 94) stated that they had a reference professional with health training in their educational center (a school nurse) for the management of possible cases of COVID-19. Significant differences were found in five of the nine dimensions studied between the groups of teachers analyzed. Teachers who had a health professional, specifically a nurse, during the pandemic indicated that they felt safer in their educational center, as they perceived that they had more personal protective equipment (OR = 2.03, [95% CI: 1.23–3.35]; p = 0.006). They were also more committed (OR = 1.89, [95% CI: 1.04–3.46]; p = 0.038) with their educational work and assumed more obligations (OR = 1.87, [95% CI: 1.01–3.44]; p = 0.045) and risks (OR = 2.82, [95% CI: 1.13–7.07]; p = 0.027). In addition, they presented fewer feelings of burnout (OR = 0.63, [95% CI: 0.41–0.98]; p = 0.041). These results indicate that having nurses in educational centers improves teachers’ ability to cope with a pandemic situation.

Keywords: attitudes; COVID-19; educational personnel; emotions; pandemics; nurses, community health; nurses, public health; work engagement; work performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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