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Risks of ecosystems’ degradation: portuguese healthcare professionals’ mental health, hope and resilient coping
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Healthcare professionals constantly face situations that reflect ecosystems’ degradation.
These can negatively affect their mental health. Research suggests that hope and resilience can play an
important role in this scenario, since they are related to/predict mental health in highly heterogeneous
samples (considering geography, age, profession, health, etc.). In this context, the aims of the present
study are the following: to characterize and explore the relationship between hope, resilient coping
and mental health in Portuguese healthcare professionals. Using Google Forms, 276 healthcare
professionals answered the GHQ-28, the (adult) Trait Hope Scale, and the Brief Resilient Coping Scale
(retrospective, analytical observational, cross-sectional, descriptive and correlational research design).
The minimum and maximum possible scores were reached, with the exception of the maximum score
of GHQ-28-Total. Regarding Hope, 19.6% scored below the midpoint (M = 43.46, SD = 11.97); 29.3%
revealed low resilience (M = 14.93, SD = 4.05); and the average of four of the five Mental Health
scores (exception: Severe depression) indicates the probability of a psychiatric case. Hope correlated
with Social dysfunction and GHQ-28-Total; resilient coping proved to be a (weak) predictor of four of
the five GHQ-28 indicators (exception: Severe depression). The results support the need to promote
the sample’s mental health, hope and resilient coping. They also suggest that stimulating resilient
coping may contribute to improving healthcare professionals’ mental health. Prior research (e.g., on
therapies to enhance hope, resilience and, thus, mental health), to which the current study contributes,
supports optimism towards the necessary internal sustainability transition.
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Health personnel Mental health Hope Resilience Psychological Sustainability factors related to health Ecosystems’ degradation risks
Citation
Meneses, R.F.; Barros, C.;
Sousa, H.; Sani, A.I. Risks of
Ecosystems’ Degradation: Portuguese
Healthcare Professionals’ Mental
Health, Hope and Resilient Coping.
Sustainability 2024, 16, 5123.
https://doi.org/10.3390/su16125123