Risk and resilience in couple’s adjustment to the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic?s global scope and resulting social distancing measures have caused unprecedented economic, lifestyle, and social impacts to personal and relationship well-being. While lockdowns have prompted individuals to increase reliance on intimate partners for support, stressful external contexts can also interfere with partners? capacity to request and provide support, resulting in relationship dissatisfaction and even dissolution. Guided by a risk and resilience framework, this study examined the impact of perceived stress, social contextual factors, and dyadic coping on self-reported relationship satisfaction changes during the initial United States COVID-19 lockdown period. Participants were adults in romantic relationships who completed an online survey between April 13 and June 8, 2020. Overall, survey respondents (N = 1106) reported higher perceived stress levels than established population norms, and small but significant decrements in relationship satisfaction. Multivariable models revealed that higher perceived stress levels were associated with lower relationship satisfaction levels. Additionally, dyadic coping was found to moderate the impact of perceived stress on relationship satisfaction (B = .05, 95% CI = .02? .07), suggesting that engaging in dyadic coping buffered individuals from adverse effects of perceived stress on their relationships. Findings emphasize heightened stress experienced by individuals during the pandemic, potential detrimental effects of stress on couple relationships, and suggest dyadic coping may help buffer couples from adverse effects of the pandemic on their relationships. As such, dyadic coping may be an important target for future interventions designed to assist couples during the ongoing pandemic and future pandemics/natural disasters.

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRADITIONAL DRESS AND BACTERIAL CONTAMINATION IN THE HOSPITAL SETTING-A CROSSECTIONAL STUDY

BACKGROUND/INTRODUCTION : Healthcare worker uniforms are a potential reservoir for microorganisms, and thus contaminated dress may transmit pathogenic organisms in hospital settings. This study aims at isolating the bacteria from traditional dresses used in a tertiary care hospital, Saudi Arabia, and compares them with whitecoat. Also, this study explores the relationship between bacterial contamination and type of department, type of provider specialty, and dress textile material. METHODS : A Descriptive Analytic cross-sectional study was conducted. Multiple culture swabs were obtained from these traditional dresses and whitecoats of the healthcare workers and were analyzed for the rate of bacterial contamination. This study also compares the bacterial contamination rates between medical workers and non-medical personnel like the administrative staff. A Sample size of 742 swabs from 139 participants,from multiple sites was obtained.Data analysis was presented as mean± SD, or as median and range according to the type of distribution of each variable. The Chi-square test was used to test for the association and/or difference between two categorical variables and p-value for statistical significance. RESULTS : It was seen that bacterial contamination of 29.7% was seen in traditional dress compared to 22.5% of those wearing Whitecoat. Concerning the type of traditional dress, the highest rate of bacterial contamination was observed with Thop (40%), followed by Niqab (36.1%). Regarding the source textile material, the mixed type had the highest rate of bacterial contamination (35.7%). CONCLUSION : The traditional dress showed to be higher in the rate of bacterial contamination in comparison to whitecoats. Also, we found that the type of department and type provider specialty concerning bacterial contamination has a no different effect when compared to others. in our results, the administrative staff carries the same results as healthcare workers regarding bacterial contamination highlighting that they can share in the risk of bacterial transmission.

Social Isolation and Acceptance of the Learning Management System (LMS) in the time of COVID-19 Pandemic: An Expansion of the UTAUT Model

The COVID-19 Pandemic has led to social isolation;however, with the help of technology, education can continue through this tough time. Therefore, this research attempts to explore the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) through the expansion of the model. Also, make it relevant to investigate the influence of social isolation, and the moderating role of Corona fear on Behavioral Intention of the Learning Management System and its Use Behavior of Learning Management System among students. The data was analyzed using Partial Least Square (PLS) and Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). The findings show a positive link of Performance Expectancy (PE), Effort Expectancy (EE), Social Influence (SI), and Social Isolation on Behavioral Intention of LMS and, also between Behavioral Intention of LMS and its Use behavior. Moreover, the results of the moderation analysis show that Corona fears only moderates the link of Performance Expectancy and Social influence with Behavioral Intention of LMS. The findings imply the need for improving the LMS experience to increase its Behavioral Intention among students. Finally, the author's recommendation for future researchers is to examine the extended model in other countries and territories to analyze Coronavirus's influence on e-learning acceptance.