Work-Life Balance and Mental Health Needs of Health Professionals during COVID-19 Pandemic in Turkey

Health professionals constitute a group that is at high-risk for COVID-19. Health professionals have been found to experience difficulty in many issues, one of which is that they face the risk of infecting themselves and others by interaction with high-risk patients. The present study investigates how demographical and individual factors and work addiction affected work-life balance and mental health needs of health professionals. The hypothesized structural equation model was rejected based on the fit indices. The second analysis of modified model was significant and indicated that health professionals whom they live with had direct effects on work addiction, indirect effects on work-life balance and needs for mental health. In addition, gender and working hours had direct effects on work-life balance. The highest effect on work-life balance was from work addition. Moreover, work addiction had a moderate effect on mental health need. As a result, the current study showed that work-life balance, work addiction and need for mental health were affected during the COVID-19 pandemic