Professional Resilience and Psychological Safety of Medical Workers

Background. Professional resilience of doctors and medical staff is a dynamic process and integrative characteristic of personality, which reflects the ability to successfully cope with difficulties, challenges and changes arising in professional activities, adapt to difficult working conditions, risks and has an indirect impact on improving the level of quality of medical care. Purpose - study of professional resilience of medical workers (doctors and medical staff) as representatives of socionomic professions and approbation of the author's methodology. Methods. A group of 183 medical workers, including doctors, nurses and medical assistants, was studied. The scale of professional resilience assessed the general index of resilience and its components in specialists of the socionomic sphere, the scale of feeling of security determined the security of interpersonal communication and the feeling of confidence and control in predicting personal life. The dominant values among doctors and medical personnel and their influence on behaviour and decision-making, the measure of personality reflexivity were assessed. A brief resilience scale was used to test the validity of the methodology. Relationships between variables were studied using Spearman's correlation coefficients with regard to position and multiple regression analysis. Results. The parameters of professional resilience of doctors and medical workers were substantiated: I and colleagues, I and mentees, I in the profession. Significant positive correlations between professional resilience of medical workers and values of conformity - traditions (r = 0.218, p < 0.01), risk-novelty (r = 0.151, p < 0.05), care (r = 0.215, p < 0.01); interpersonal safety (r = 0.298, p < 0.01) and confidence and control (r = 0.238, p < 0.01) were found. The reliability and validity of the author's questionnaire of the professional resilience scale on a sample of doctors and medical staff was confirmed. It has been revealed that middle medical personnel possess more professional resilience. Conclusion. Professional resilience of physicians and medical staff is based on psychological mechanisms that ensure reliable relationships, interactions and support among colleagues, empathy and care and professionalism towards patients and their relatives, adaptation to change, self-development and self-identification in the profession. The development of professional resilience is influenced by the value orientations of doctors and medical staff and their sense of psychological safety. It is recommended to conduct trainings on resilience development for medical workers.