Interconnection of Controlling Behavior Methods and Mental Burnout of Medicine Volunteers in the Conditions of Professionally Oriented Volunteering Activities (During the Covid-19 Pandemic)
Medical volunteering is becoming a popular professionally oriented activity of students, stressful due to the specificity of the manipulations being performed, the personal characteristics of the patients themselves and the way they respond to various diseases; work in special conditions (emergencies, pandemics). Adaptive coping strategies for coping with stress in this type of activity are factors of resistance to mental burnout. So, the study of the relationship between coping behavior and mental burnout of medical volunteers in a professionally oriented volunteer activity (during the COVID-19 pandemic) is the purpose of the study. 66 students of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education KSMU of the Ministry of Health of Russia aged 18 to 24 years (of which: 37 girls and 29 boys), studying in the specialties 31.05.02 Pediatrics (44 people) and 31.05.01 Medicine (22 people) and professionally -oriented volunteer activities (medical volunteers) up to 2 years during the COVID-19 pandemic took part in it. Observation and conversation, as well as standardized psychodiagnostic research methods "Professional burnout" (PB) (Russian version of N.E. Vodopyanova, E.S. Starchenkova) and "Methods of coping behavior" R. Lazarus and S. Folkman (adapted by T.L. Kryukova, E.V. Kuftyak) were used for data collection. The processing of the results was carried out using the methods of descriptive statistics, comparative (nonparametric H-Kruskal-Wallis test, correlation and regression types of data analysis. In a stressful situation, medical volunteers use various coping behaviors to adapt at work, especially in the context of the spread of the coronavirus infection COVID-19. So, purposeful suppression and containment of negative experiences that affect the perception of a problem situation, high control of behavior and excessive rethinking of one's own actions - all this can lead to mental burnout of medical volunteers. The search for social resources, focus on interaction with other people, rationalization of the problem situation, the use of methods of switching attention, detachment, humor contribute to an increase in their self-esteem of professional efficiency.