Obj. Significance Definition of Terms

Objectives and Hypotheses of the Study
Objective of the Study:
This study intends to measure the influence of personal factors, resilience, social
support and organizational support towards COVID-19 related anxiety among nurses of
Roxas Memorial Provincial Hospital.
Specifically, this study will:
1. Describe the personal factors of nurses in terms of age, sex, work status and marital
status
2. Measure the level of resilience, social support and organizational support among
nurses of Roxas Memorial Provincial Hospital
3. Measure the level of COVID-19 related anxiety among nurses of Roxas Memorial
Provincial Hospital
4. Measure whether there is a significant relationship between personal factors in terms
of age, sex, work status and marital status and resilience, social support and
organizational support among nurses Roxas Memorial Provincial Hospital.
5. Measure whether there is a significant relationship between personal factors and
COVID-19 related anxiety among nurses of Roxas Memorial Provincial Hospital.
6. Measure whether there is a significant relationship between resilience, social support
and organizational support and Covid-19 related anxiety among nurses of Roxas
Memorial Provincial Hospital.
Based on the foregoing problems, the following hypotheses were stipulated as follows:
1. There is a significant relationship between personal factors in terms of age, sex, work status
and marital status and resilience, social support and organizational support among nurses of
Roxas Memorial Provincial Hospital.
2. There is a significant relationship between personal factors and COVID-19 related
anxiety among nurses of Roxas Memorial Provincial Hospital.
3. There is a significant relationship between resilience, social support and
organizational support and COVID-19 related anxiety among nurses of Roxas
Memorial Provincial Hospital.
Significance of the Study
The results of the study may be beneficial to the following:
Nurses of Roxas Memorial Provincial Hospital and Nurses of other hospitals. Nurses will be
informed that personal factors, resilience, social support and organizational support have
greatly influenced their COVID – 19 related anxiety. It may also help to address and reduced
their COVID – 19 related anxiety.
Nursing administrators. The result of this study will increase their social support, assure
adequate organizational support, provide psychological and mental support services, provide
resilience – promoting and stress management in order to support nurses mental,
psychological and emotional health.
Hospital Administrators. This study will help in improving workplace efficiency and
maintaining accreditation.The hospital administration can consider an education program that
offers instructions in discipline like psychology specifically mental health of nurses.

Chief Nurses. The study will help the chief nurses to coordinate implementation of new
strategies in managing anxiety among nurses creating a best work environment and
formulating and implementing new strategies.
Hospital Supervisors. This study will help the supervisors to discipline staff using positive
techniques that emphasize mental health retraining and reteaching of nurses.
Philippine Nurses Association. The study will provide information to Philippine Nurses
Association to be responsive to nurse's needs in promoting their welfare and preparing the
nurses to be globally competitive and serves as an advocate of nurses.
Family of Nurses. The result of this study will provide a healthy family relationship that also
are source of comfort, guidance and strength that a nurse can draw in times of anxiety.
Future Researchers. This study will served as a useful reference for future researchers who
would plan to make any related study.

Definition of Terms
For the purpose of clarity and understanding, the following terms were defined
conceptually and operationally:
Independent Variable
Personal factors - include childhood experience, knowledge and education,
personality and self construal, sense of control, values, political and world views, goals, felt
responsibility, cognitive biases, place attachment, age, gender and chosen activities. (Robert,
G. et al., 2014).
In this study, personal factors refers to the individual factors to the nurse’s that
strongly influences their developing anxiety include age, sex, marital status, and work status.
Resilience - is the person’s ability to withstand, adapt to, and recover from stress and
adversity—and maintain or return to a state of mental health wellbeing — by using effective
coping strategies (US Department of Health & Human services).
In this study, the level of resilience of the nurses will be measured by 4 items in the
questionnaire which will ask them to answer according to 5-point Likert-type scale (0 [does
not describe me at all] to 5 [describes me very well]). The mean score will be determined and
used to interpret their level of resilience as follows: low resilience (1.00-2.99), moderate
resilience (3.00-4.30) and high resilience (4.31-5.00).
Social support – is the physical and emotional comfort given to us by our family,
friends, co – workers and others (Fairbrother, N., 2011).

In this study, the level of social support of the nurses will be measured by 6 items in
the questionnaire which will ask them to answer according to 5-point Likert-type scale (1
[strongly disagree] to 5 [strongly agree]). The mean score will be determined and used to
interpret their level of social support as follows: low social support (1.00-2.99) , moderate
social support (3.00-4.30) and high social support ( 4.31-5.00).
Organizational support -refers to the extent to which employees deem that their
organization values their contribution and cares about their well-being (Eisenberger et al.,
1986)
In this study, the level of organizational support of the nurses will be measured by 8
items in the questionnaire which will ask them to answer according to 5-point Likert-type
scale (1 [strongly disagree] to 5 [strongly agree]). The mean score will be determined and
used to interpret their level of organizational support as follows: low organizational support
(1.00–2.99), moderate organizational support (3.00–4.30) and high organizational support
(4.31–5.00)
Dependent Variable
COVID-19 related anxiety among nurses of Roxas Memorial Provincial Hospital - refers to
the psychological, emotional, and physiological changes among nurses of RMPH on COVID
19 that may be classified into mild, moderate, severe, and panic.
In this study, the level of COVID-19 related anxiety among nurses of Roxas
Memorial Provincial Hospital of the nurses will be measured by 5 items in the questionnaire
which will ask them to answer according to the frequency of symptoms experienced in a 5-
point Likert-type scale (0 [not at all] to 4 [nearly every day]). The mean score will be
determined and used to interpret their level of COVID-19 related anxiety as follows: Not at
all (0), Rare, less than a day or two (1), Several days (2) More than seven days (3) early every
day over the last 2 weeks (4).

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Objectives and Hypotheses of the Study

Objective of the Study:

Roxas Memorial Provincial Hospital.

Specifically, this study will:

nurses of Roxas Memorial Provincial Hospital

4. Measure whether there is a significant relationship between personal factors in terms

organizational support among nurses Roxas Memorial Provincial Hospital.

5. Measure whether there is a significant relationship between personal factors and

COVID-19 related anxiety among nurses of Roxas Memorial Provincial Hospital.

6. Measure whether there is a significant relationship between resilience, social support

Memorial Provincial Hospital.

Roxas Memorial Provincial Hospital.

2. There is a significant relationship between personal factors and COVID-19 related

anxiety among nurses of Roxas Memorial Provincial Hospital.

3. There is a significant relationship between resilience, social support and

organizational support and COVID-19 related anxiety among nurses of Roxas

Memorial Provincial Hospital.

Significance of the Study

The results of the study may be beneficial to the following:

their COVID – 19 related anxiety.

resilience – promoting and stress management in order to support nurses mental,

psychological and emotional health.

maintaining accreditation.The hospital administration can consider an education program that

offers instructions in discipline like psychology specifically mental health of nurses.

formulating and implementing new strategies.

techniques that emphasize mental health retraining and reteaching of nurses.

nurses to be globally competitive and serves as an advocate of nurses.

would plan to make any related study.

conceptually and operationally:

Personal factors - include childhood experience, knowledge and education,

adversity—and maintain or return to a state of mental health wellbeing — by using effective

coping strategies (US Department of Health & Human services).

resilience (3.00-4.30) and high resilience (4.31-5.00).

friends, co – workers and others (Fairbrother, N., 2011).

social support (3.00-4.30) and high social support ( 4.31-5.00).

(1.00–2.99), moderate organizational support (3.00–4.30) and high organizational support

19 that may be classified into mild, moderate, severe, and panic.

day over the last 2 weeks (4).

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