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The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and previous natural disasters on the mental health of healthcare workers in Puerto Rico
The objective of this study was to assess the impact of COVID-19 pandemic worries (e.g., fear of contagion) and previous exposure to natural disasters (e.g., hurricanes) on Healthcare Workers (HCWs) mental health in Puerto Rico. Participants completed a self-administered online survey including item...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10191270/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37195928 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0001784 |
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author | Hernández-Torres, Ruthmarie Martínez Lozano, Marijulie Torres, Irma Rosario-Hernández, Ernesto Ramos-Pibernus, Alíxida Soto, Ana Ortiz, Luisa Mascayano, Franco Rivera-Segarra, Eliut |
author_facet | Hernández-Torres, Ruthmarie Martínez Lozano, Marijulie Torres, Irma Rosario-Hernández, Ernesto Ramos-Pibernus, Alíxida Soto, Ana Ortiz, Luisa Mascayano, Franco Rivera-Segarra, Eliut |
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description | The objective of this study was to assess the impact of COVID-19 pandemic worries (e.g., fear of contagion) and previous exposure to natural disasters (e.g., hurricanes) on Healthcare Workers (HCWs) mental health in Puerto Rico. Participants completed a self-administered online survey including items on sociodemographic information, working conditions, fears, and worries about the COVID-19 pandemic, past natural disaster experiences, depressive symptoms, and resilience. Logistic regressions models were performed to explain the relationship between depressive symptomatology and COVID-19 experiences and worries. 40.9% (n = 107) of the sample were classified as having some level (mild to severe) of depressive symptomatology (PHQ-8 ≥5). Results reflect normal to high levels of psychological resilience (BRS; M = 3.7, SD = 0.7). A significant association was found between depressive symptomatology and psychological resilience (OR = 0.44, 95% CI: 0.25–0.77). The odds of having depressive symptomatology were almost five times higher (OR = 4.79, 95% CI: 1.71–13.44) among those who reported emotional coping difficulties during the pandemic after experiencing a natural disaster compared to those that did not, when adjusting for psychological resilience and residence region. Despite normal to high psychological resilience levels, HCWs who reported emotional coping difficulties due to previous disasters were at risk of developing depressive symptomatology. Results suggest interventions to address the mental health of HCWs could benefit from considering other individual and environmental factors beyond resilience. Findings could inform future interventions to promote HCWs’ well-being before, during, and after a natural disaster or pandemic outbreak. |
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spelling | pubmed-101912702023-05-18 The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and previous natural disasters on the mental health of healthcare workers in Puerto Rico Hernández-Torres, Ruthmarie Martínez Lozano, Marijulie Torres, Irma Rosario-Hernández, Ernesto Ramos-Pibernus, Alíxida Soto, Ana Ortiz, Luisa Mascayano, Franco Rivera-Segarra, Eliut PLOS Glob Public Health Research Article The objective of this study was to assess the impact of COVID-19 pandemic worries (e.g., fear of contagion) and previous exposure to natural disasters (e.g., hurricanes) on Healthcare Workers (HCWs) mental health in Puerto Rico. Participants completed a self-administered online survey including items on sociodemographic information, working conditions, fears, and worries about the COVID-19 pandemic, past natural disaster experiences, depressive symptoms, and resilience. Logistic regressions models were performed to explain the relationship between depressive symptomatology and COVID-19 experiences and worries. 40.9% (n = 107) of the sample were classified as having some level (mild to severe) of depressive symptomatology (PHQ-8 ≥5). Results reflect normal to high levels of psychological resilience (BRS; M = 3.7, SD = 0.7). A significant association was found between depressive symptomatology and psychological resilience (OR = 0.44, 95% CI: 0.25–0.77). The odds of having depressive symptomatology were almost five times higher (OR = 4.79, 95% CI: 1.71–13.44) among those who reported emotional coping difficulties during the pandemic after experiencing a natural disaster compared to those that did not, when adjusting for psychological resilience and residence region. Despite normal to high psychological resilience levels, HCWs who reported emotional coping difficulties due to previous disasters were at risk of developing depressive symptomatology. Results suggest interventions to address the mental health of HCWs could benefit from considering other individual and environmental factors beyond resilience. Findings could inform future interventions to promote HCWs’ well-being before, during, and after a natural disaster or pandemic outbreak. Public Library of Science 2023-05-17 /pmc/articles/PMC10191270/ /pubmed/37195928 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0001784 Text en © 2023 Hernández-Torres et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Hernández-Torres, Ruthmarie Martínez Lozano, Marijulie Torres, Irma Rosario-Hernández, Ernesto Ramos-Pibernus, Alíxida Soto, Ana Ortiz, Luisa Mascayano, Franco Rivera-Segarra, Eliut The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and previous natural disasters on the mental health of healthcare workers in Puerto Rico |
title | The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and previous natural disasters on the mental health of healthcare workers in Puerto Rico |
title_full | The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and previous natural disasters on the mental health of healthcare workers in Puerto Rico |
title_fullStr | The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and previous natural disasters on the mental health of healthcare workers in Puerto Rico |
title_full_unstemmed | The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and previous natural disasters on the mental health of healthcare workers in Puerto Rico |
title_short | The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and previous natural disasters on the mental health of healthcare workers in Puerto Rico |
title_sort | impact of the covid-19 pandemic and previous natural disasters on the mental health of healthcare workers in puerto rico |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10191270/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37195928 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0001784 |
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