Spiritual well-being, perceived social support, and its correlation with psychological resilience of health workers in covid-19 unit at special infection hospital (RSKI) universitas airlangga during pandemic

During Covid-19 pandemic, health workers were among vulnerable groups to experience psychological problems related to the pandemic. Some protective factors were provided to maintain the mental health of health workers, among which one is psychological resilience where spiritual well-being and perceived social support are said to be factors that can mediate it. This study examined the correlation between spiritual well-being and perceived social support on the psychological resilience of health workers during the pandemic era in Indonesia. Furthermore, results of this study can be used as basic data for consideration in formulating policies to protect health worker’s mental health in the future. This aim of this study was to analyze correlation between spiritual well-being and perceived social support with psychological resilience of health workers in Covid-19 Unit, RSKI Universitas Airlangga. This is a cross-sectional observational analytic study. Spiritual well-being was measured using Spiritual Well-being Items (SWBS) questionnaire, perceived social support using Multidimensional of Perceived Social Support (MPSS) while psychological resilience using Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale 10 (CD RISC-10). This study sample consisted of 33 health workers. Subjects had high and moderate levels of spiritual well-being, perceived social support and psychological resilience. No significant correlation was found between total score of spiritual well-being, perceived social support and psychological resilience. From the sub-dimensional of perceived social support, only friends’ sub-dimension has a significant effect on the psychological resilience. There is no significant correlation between spiritual well-being, total perceived social support and psychological resilience. Only perceived social support of friends has an effect.