Assessment of workers’ personal vulnerability to covid-19 using ‘covid-age’

This article is an exploratory study of perceived risk in the construction sector. We used a sample of 514 workers in Spain, Peru and Nicaragua. The method used was the psychometric paradigm and, under its assumptions we have studied nine factors or qualitative attributes of risk. The main statistical analysis was carried out using a classification tree. As a result is obtained that four of the nine attributes studied predict significantly the perceived risk of the sample. The attribute on the delay of the consequences has been the most important predictor in the model, followed by the attribute that explores the potential catastrophic risk and the attribute that explores the serious consequences. Finally the attribute related to the personal vulnerability has emerged. The implications of the results are exposed.

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The patient within — psychopathology in the helping professions

Advances in Psychiatric Treatment ◽

10.1192/apt.9.4.272 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 272-279 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Richard Tillett

Keyword(s):

Health Professionals ◽

Alcohol Misuse ◽

Clinical Work ◽

Work Role ◽

Complex Relationship ◽

Helping Professions ◽

Remedial Action ◽

Personal Vulnerability ◽

Anxiety Depression ◽

Drug And Alcohol

Doctors, like other health professionals, show increased rates of psychological morbidity, including anxiety, depression, suicide, drug and alcohol misuse and professional exhaustion (burnout). This might be due in part to the pressures of clinical work, but might also reflect Malan's ‘helping profession syndrome’, in which an individual chooses, usually unconsciously, to work as a carer as a response to personal vulnerability, or ‘the patient within’. This paper reviews the literature relating to the complex relationship that health professionals have with their work role, discusses the implications for the profession, and proposes areas of prophylactic or remedial action.

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The Influence of Interpersonal Competence on Personal Vulnerability of Persons With Mental Retardation

Journal of Interpersonal Violence ◽

10.1177/088626000015001004 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 46-62 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

TED NETTELBECK ◽

CARLENE WILSON ◽

ROBERT POTTER ◽

CAROLINE PERRY

Keyword(s):

Mental Retardation ◽

Interpersonal Competence ◽

Personal Vulnerability

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atmospheric etudes: no 1, troposphere

MacEwan University Student eJournal ◽

10.31542/muse.v5i1.2050 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Mari Alice Conrad

Keyword(s):

Classical Music ◽

Life Experience ◽

Minority Group ◽

Artistic Practice ◽

Mature Student ◽

Music Score ◽

Multiple Variables ◽

Personal Vulnerability ◽

Graphic Score ◽

Returning To School

As a fourth-year music composition major at MacEwan University, Mari Alice Conrad was interested in exploring the concept of vulnerability. She was particularly inspired by her recent vulnerable experiences returning to school as a mature student and sought to understand these existential experiences in more depth. This curiosity led Conrad to design a research-creation project in her Ethnomusicology course that utilized her skills in composing a musical work that explored vulnerability on three distinct levels: personal vulnerability, societal vulnerability, and global vulnerability. The first level, personal vulnerability, plunged into Conrad's personal experiences as a mature student who, by age and life experience, had been socially segregated to a minority group, and how she was processing those experiences. The second level, sociological vulnerability, specifically focused on addressing societal traditions of classical music and notational conventions for the piano. Conrad sought to displace the customary approach she had developed with the instrument since childhood and considered ways to make the piano (an inanimate object) and its notated music vulnerable. The third level was a more global, ecological, or environmental vulnerability of the weather systems found in the troposphere, the first layer of the atmosphere. Conrad wanted to understand why this layer was extremely volatile and susceptible to multiple variables and how humans interacted with the vulnerability of this force. This third level was also an area that she could universally connect with her audience (hence the title of the composition) and acted as a bridge to explore the other two levels of vulnerability in her work. Throughout the research-creation process, Conrad was able to explore the three levels of vulnerability in tremendous depth, express her interactions and discoveries of these three levels, and further disseminate her findings through notating a graphic score, recording the composition, and crafting an audiovisual representation. The final result of the research-creation composition project (music score and video) brilliantly weaves together concepts of vulnerability in a compelling and meaningful way and shares insight into how these ideas influence and encapsulate Conrad's budding artistic practice.

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Trauma and Religious Complexity in Later Life

Innovation in Aging ◽

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1339 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽

pp. 415-415

Author(s):

Rennae Wigton ◽

Shannon Jones ◽

Austin Prusak ◽

Andrew Futterman

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

New York ◽

New England ◽

Later Life ◽

Severe Trauma ◽

Great Distance ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Personal Vulnerability ◽

And Behavior ◽

The Impact

Abstract The present study examines the impact of traumatic life events on religious complexity in later life. We anticipated that those older adults experiencing stressors that produce significant personal vulnerability (e.g., life threatening illnesses) demonstrate reduced complexity of belief and behavior (e.g., less belief with doubt). From a sample of 278 semi-structured interviews of older adults (aged 55-101 years-old.) from six New England and New York states, we analyzed 166 interviews using grounded theory (Strauss & Corbin, 1990). Individuals who experienced trauma related to war, close familial loss, and/or severe physical illness tended to be “true believers,” (i.e., adhere to rigid belief orthodoxy; Hoffer, 1950). By contrast, those who experienced less severe trauma (e.g., minor illness, job loss) were less apt to describe rigid belief. Temporal proximity of trauma was not consistently associated with greater complexity of belief and behavior, in the sense that with great distance from trauma, individuals were able to “work through” their experiences of trauma, and thereby increase complexity of belief and behavior. This is consistent with findings by Harris and Leak (2015), Krause and Hayward (2012), and Wong (2013) that suggest that trauma leading to personal vulnerability leads to long-term physical, mental, behavioral, and spiritual deficits that rigid religious belief and behavior help to offset. These findings are discussed in terms of psychological theories of grief resolution, personal coping, and terror management.

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Zeitgeist

M/C Journal ◽

10.5204/mcj.2616 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Andrew Johnson

Keyword(s):

Mobile Phone ◽

Public Space ◽

Cell Phone ◽

Public Display ◽

Avian Flu ◽

Social Challenge ◽

Personal Vulnerability ◽

The Times

Zeitgeist, a cycle of digital collages, of images within images, references the visibility and invisibility of communication via the personalized icons of the hand phone and dust mask. The mobile phone affirms and denies what is immediately present before us. It carries images and sounds customized to represent individual callers, however remote. We believe that they offer protection and lessen fear, especially fear of another’s aggression, address, glance or absence. Their capabilities provoke meditation on degrees of immanence through an amalgamation of personal and public space. When speaking on a hand phone, one typically looks down, withdrawing from the immediate environment. The proximate withdraws from consciousness as the distant approaches, as in any telecommunication, but now this creation and collapsing of relations is on public display. Infected with the promise of greater and ubiquitous intimacy and exchange, we remain insecure hosts. Dust masks, common on the spring streets of Seoul, are social shells that conceal and reveal collective contamination and individual sacrifice. They isolate and bind and make anonymous. Often they are borne by the sick (hosts, again) so as not to spread disease. But they are also worn by protesters to preserve anonymity and for protection from dispersing fumes. Indicative of social challenge, personal vulnerability or pandemic infection (especially in the case of Avian Flu), the mask is permeated by fear floating freely between peoples, countries, and continents. Floating in the air — microbes, infections, apparitions, voices beyond. The cell phone, with all its messages, texts and images, signals the spirit of the times, a zeitgeist of promise — instilling the need for constant connection, paradoxically breeding dependency amidst isolation. Citation reference for this article MLA Style Johnson, Andrew. "Zeitgeist." M/C Journal 10.1 (2007). echo date('d M. Y'); ?> <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0703/12-johnson.php>. APA Style Johnson, A. (Mar. 2007) "Zeitgeist," M/C Journal, 10(1). Retrieved echo date('d M. Y'); ?> from <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0703/12-johnson.php>.

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Assessment of Workers’ Personal Vulnerability to COVID-19 Using “COVID-AGE”

10.1101/2020.05.21.20108969 ◽

2020 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

David Coggon ◽

Peter Croft ◽

Paul Cullinan ◽

Anthony Williams

Keyword(s):

Risk Factor ◽

Risk Model ◽

White Male ◽

Summary Measure ◽

Occupational Risks ◽

Individual Vulnerability ◽

Personal Vulnerability ◽

The Uk ◽

The Impact ◽

New Evidence

AbstractDecisions on fitness for employment that entails a risk of contracting Covid-19 require an assessment of the worker’s personal vulnerability should infection occur. Using recently published UK data, we have developed a risk model that provides estimates of personal vulnerability to Covid-19 according to sex, age, ethnicity, and various comorbidities. Vulnerability from each risk factor is quantified in terms of its equivalence to added years of age. Addition of the impact from each risk factor to an individual’s true age generates their “Covid-age”, a summary measure representing the age of a healthy UK white male with equivalent vulnerability. We discuss important limitations of the model, including current scientific uncertainties and limitations on generalisability beyond the UK setting and its use beyond informing assessments of individual vulnerability in the workplace. As new evidence becomes available, some of these limitations can be addressed. The model does not remove the need for clinical judgement or for other important considerations when managing occupational risks from Covid-19.

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