Self-efficacy, self-esteem and engagement among Peruvian nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Autores: Ventura Egoávil, José, Sosa Huichi, Alexander
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2023
• Institución: Universidad ESAN
• Repositorio: ESAN-Institucional
• Lenguaje: inglés
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.esan.edu.pe:20.500.12640/3405
• Enlace del recurso: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12640/3405; https://doi.org/10.6018/eglobal.528511
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Self Efficacy; Self Esteem; Engagement; COVID-19; Autoeficacia; Autoestima; Compromiso; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#5.02.04; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.03.10

Introduction: Nursing professionals have faced the COVID-19 pandemic and health crisis on the front lines. Caught without technical and material readiness, as well as without previous experience, they resorted to using their own resources such as self-esteem and self-efficacy to raise their performance and uphold their commitment to public health. It has been reported that one third of the 37,000 nurses working in Peru contracted COVID-19, and approximately 180 died from the virus. Objectives: Measure the influence of personal resources on engagement among professional nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Cross-sectional explanatory correlational research from a sample of 387 Peruvian nursing professionals. A descriptive and inferential statistical analysis was performed. IBM SPSS Statistics V/26 software was used. Results: The results showed highly significant and positive correlations between the variables self-efficacy, self-esteem and engagement. Likewise, predictive values of more than 50% of personal resources on engagement were identified. Conclusions: Professional nurses during the pandemic perceived themselves with an average level of self-efficacy, high levels of self-esteem, and a medium level of engagement. Personal resources, self-efficacy and self-esteem, were able to predict the engagement of professional nurses in the dimensions of vigor, dedication and absorption.