The covid-19 pandemic can endanger the physical and mental health of people in general, but a particularly vulnerable group are people who work in stores. The purpose of the study was to examine how the health of store employees had been affected by the covid-19 pandemic and to identify if age, gender, form of employment, line of business and type of store, are important contributing factors. To answer the purpose a web-based survey was performed where 783 store employees participated. The results showed that store employees had relatively high anxiety levels concerning covid-19 infection and relatively high stress levels concerning increased workload because of covid-19. A large proportion of the store employees who had less social interactions due to their job had experienced sadness. The results also showed that there were several factors that affected the health of store employees. The factors who clearly influenced the anxiety and stress levels were if the store employees had shown symptoms, has had covid-19 or were in risk group. Gender, line of business and what type of store they worked in also had some impact on anxiety or stress levels. Age and form of employment were however factors who influenced the health very little according to this study, but to draw this conclusion with certainty further studies are needed. The conclusion is that the health of store employees has been negatively affected by the covid-19 pandemic regarding increased anxiety, stress and sadness, and also that risk group is the foremost contributing factor.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:umu-184027 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Bergdahl, Annika |
| Publisher | Umeå universitet, Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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