Changes in society during COVID-19 pandemic: from the point of view of health care workers

ENPurpose: to define opinions on situation of health care workers during COVID-19 pandemic in Lithuania. Methods: Analysis of research literature sources, systematization, synthesis, generalization, and comparison were applied it the theoretical level. Quantitative research i.e. questionnaire survey and data processing methods were applied in the empirical research. The collected empirical data was processed using SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) program. During data processing, descriptive statistics were used -such as percentiles, mean, mode and standard deviation, ANOVA test. Results: The results revealed that respondents were most afraid of the health of their family members. They also fear about the health of patients and feel anxious about the future in a general sense. Respondents tended to disagree that they feel dissatisfied that they cannot move freely and that they feel powerless to change anything. Respondents tended to disagree that there was a growing distrust of people, dissatisfaction with changes in life and that there was tension in the family. Assessing the opinion of respondents, what problems will become apparent after the spread of COVID-19, the results revealed that respondents most agree that the increase in financial problems; psychological problems and social will increase. It is partially agreed that people will be afraid to leave the country and visit public places.Discussion: Our research results did in Lithuania with health care workers actually shows the same results about problems arise with fear, anxiety and etc. at a personal level. We can conclude that the main problems that can occur during a pandemic are financial, social and psychological problems as were mentioned in another researcher’s works. But we can add that health care workers agreed that situation is partly controlled in Lithuania, so not in all countries the same result.