The Problems Experienced by Employees With Chronic Disease During the Covid-19 Pandemic
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2022
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Tengilimoglu, Dilaver
Tengilimoğlu, Dilaver
Goenuellue, Ugur
Isik, Oguz
Tosun, Nurperihan
Zekioglu, Aysu
Tengilimoglu, Onur
Younis, Mustafa
Tengilimoğlu, Dilaver
Tengilimoğlu, Dilaver
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Chronic diseases served as a silent global epidemic before the pandemic, and individuals living with chronic disease now form one of the groups most affected by COVID-19. This study aims to determine the problems that employees with chronic disease face during the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of the study, data were collected from 952 individuals who live with chronic disease in Turkey. Of these, 76.6% of respondents worked for the public sector, a large majority of whom (67.7%) have worked full time during the COVID-19 pandemic. It was found that the COVID-19 fear level of employees living with chronic disease was higher than moderate (21.061 +/- 7.607). When the variables affecting the COVID-19 fear level are listed in order of relative significance, eating problems, residing in the Mediterranean region, having asthma, and working as a female employee made the greatest impact, respectively. Necessary conditions of work should be provided to those living with chronic disease who could adapt themselves to working flexibly or working from home, so that they would not feel isolated from business life. This group should be provided with essential protective equipment, their working conditions must be reviewed and vaccination priority could be given to them.
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GONULLU, UGUR/0000-0002-4360-7297; kurtuldu, aysu/0000-0002-4514-5073; Younis, Mustafa/0000-0001-8448-808X
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chronic diseases, COVID-19, employee, work life, Turkey
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19
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1