Abstract
COVID-19 pandemic has brought the nation’s capital healthcare system into its critical mass, leaving the front-liners at significant risk while sacrificing their lives to fight against the COVID-19. This study aimed to determine the relationship between the front-liners’ profile, health risk, life satisfaction, and death anxiety. This study utilized a quantitative, descriptive-correlational design and a purposive sampling technique that involved 100 front-line healthcare workers from Tayabas, Quezon. Instruments were researcher-made questionnaires, validated by experts, and underwent pilot testing. These include the personal information sheet, health risk questionnaire, physical and mental health risk, and the death anxiety questionnaire. To find the relationship between variables, Pearson’s correlation coefficient was used. Results indicated that relationship between death anxiety and the respondents’ profile was not significant except for the years of employment, which has a significant inverse relationship. Meanwhile, both the physical health risk and death anxiety and mental health risk and death anxiety have significant relationships. However, life satisfaction and death anxiety has a significant inverse relationship. This study suggests providing intervention to prevent death anxiety by improving the front-liners’ physical, mental health, and life satisfaction.
Keywords: COVID-19, pandemic, health risk, life satisfaction, death anxiety, front-liners
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