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Snapshot Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Wellness in Nonphysician Otolaryngology Health Care Workers: A National Study

OBJECTIVE: Nonphysician health care workers are involved in high-risk patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic, placing them at high risk of mental health burden. The mental health impact of COVID-19 in this crucial population has not been studied thus far. Thus, the objective of this study is to a...

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Autores principales: Prasad, Aman, Civantos, Alyssa M., Byrnes, Yasmeen, Chorath, Kevin, Poonia, Seerat, Chang, Changgee, Graboyes, Evan M., Bur, Andrés M., Thakkar, Punam, Deng, Jie, Seth, Rahul, Trosman, Samuel, Wong, Anni, Laitman, Benjamin M., Shah, Janki, Stubbs, Vanessa, Long, Qi, Choby, Garret, Rassekh, Christopher H., Thaler, Erica R., Rajasekaran, Karthik
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7415941/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32839747
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2473974X20948835
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author Prasad, Aman
Civantos, Alyssa M.
Byrnes, Yasmeen
Chorath, Kevin
Poonia, Seerat
Chang, Changgee
Graboyes, Evan M.
Bur, Andrés M.
Thakkar, Punam
Deng, Jie
Seth, Rahul
Trosman, Samuel
Wong, Anni
Laitman, Benjamin M.
Shah, Janki
Stubbs, Vanessa
Long, Qi
Choby, Garret
Rassekh, Christopher H.
Thaler, Erica R.
Rajasekaran, Karthik
author_facet Prasad, Aman
Civantos, Alyssa M.
Byrnes, Yasmeen
Chorath, Kevin
Poonia, Seerat
Chang, Changgee
Graboyes, Evan M.
Bur, Andrés M.
Thakkar, Punam
Deng, Jie
Seth, Rahul
Trosman, Samuel
Wong, Anni
Laitman, Benjamin M.
Shah, Janki
Stubbs, Vanessa
Long, Qi
Choby, Garret
Rassekh, Christopher H.
Thaler, Erica R.
Rajasekaran, Karthik
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description OBJECTIVE: Nonphysician health care workers are involved in high-risk patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic, placing them at high risk of mental health burden. The mental health impact of COVID-19 in this crucial population has not been studied thus far. Thus, the objective of this study is to assess the psychosocial well-being of these providers. STUDY DESIGN: National cross-sectional online survey (no control group). SETTING: Academic otolaryngology programs in the United States. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: We distributed a survey to nonphysician health care workers in otolaryngology departments across the United States. The survey incorporated a variety of validated mental health assessment tools to measure participant burnout (Mini-Z assessment), anxiety (Generalized Anxiety Disorder–7), distress (Impact of Event Scale), and depression (Patient Health Questionnaire–2). Multivariable logistic regression analysis was performed to determine predictive factors associated with these mental health outcomes. RESULTS: We received 347 survey responses: 248 (71.5%) nurses, 63 (18.2%) administrative staff, and 36 (10.4%) advanced practice providers. A total of 104 (30.0%) respondents reported symptoms of burnout; 241 (69.5%), symptoms of anxiety; 292 (84.1%), symptoms of at least mild distress; and 79 (22.8%), symptoms of depression. Upon further analysis, development of these symptoms was associated with factors such as occupation, practice setting, and case load. CONCLUSION: Frontline otolaryngology health care providers exhibit high rates of mental health complications, particularly anxiety and distress, in the wake of COVID-19. Adequate support systems must be put into place to address these issues.
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spelling pubmed-74159412020-08-10 Snapshot Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Wellness in Nonphysician Otolaryngology Health Care Workers: A National Study Prasad, Aman Civantos, Alyssa M. Byrnes, Yasmeen Chorath, Kevin Poonia, Seerat Chang, Changgee Graboyes, Evan M. Bur, Andrés M. Thakkar, Punam Deng, Jie Seth, Rahul Trosman, Samuel Wong, Anni Laitman, Benjamin M. Shah, Janki Stubbs, Vanessa Long, Qi Choby, Garret Rassekh, Christopher H. Thaler, Erica R. Rajasekaran, Karthik OTO Open Original Research OBJECTIVE: Nonphysician health care workers are involved in high-risk patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic, placing them at high risk of mental health burden. The mental health impact of COVID-19 in this crucial population has not been studied thus far. Thus, the objective of this study is to assess the psychosocial well-being of these providers. STUDY DESIGN: National cross-sectional online survey (no control group). SETTING: Academic otolaryngology programs in the United States. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: We distributed a survey to nonphysician health care workers in otolaryngology departments across the United States. The survey incorporated a variety of validated mental health assessment tools to measure participant burnout (Mini-Z assessment), anxiety (Generalized Anxiety Disorder–7), distress (Impact of Event Scale), and depression (Patient Health Questionnaire–2). Multivariable logistic regression analysis was performed to determine predictive factors associated with these mental health outcomes. RESULTS: We received 347 survey responses: 248 (71.5%) nurses, 63 (18.2%) administrative staff, and 36 (10.4%) advanced practice providers. A total of 104 (30.0%) respondents reported symptoms of burnout; 241 (69.5%), symptoms of anxiety; 292 (84.1%), symptoms of at least mild distress; and 79 (22.8%), symptoms of depression. Upon further analysis, development of these symptoms was associated with factors such as occupation, practice setting, and case load. CONCLUSION: Frontline otolaryngology health care providers exhibit high rates of mental health complications, particularly anxiety and distress, in the wake of COVID-19. Adequate support systems must be put into place to address these issues. SAGE Publications 2020-08-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7415941/ /pubmed/32839747 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2473974X20948835 Text en © The Authors 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Prasad, Aman
Civantos, Alyssa M.
Byrnes, Yasmeen
Chorath, Kevin
Poonia, Seerat
Chang, Changgee
Graboyes, Evan M.
Bur, Andrés M.
Thakkar, Punam
Deng, Jie
Seth, Rahul
Trosman, Samuel
Wong, Anni
Laitman, Benjamin M.
Shah, Janki
Stubbs, Vanessa
Long, Qi
Choby, Garret
Rassekh, Christopher H.
Thaler, Erica R.
Rajasekaran, Karthik
Snapshot Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Wellness in Nonphysician Otolaryngology Health Care Workers: A National Study
title Snapshot Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Wellness in Nonphysician Otolaryngology Health Care Workers: A National Study
title_full Snapshot Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Wellness in Nonphysician Otolaryngology Health Care Workers: A National Study
title_fullStr Snapshot Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Wellness in Nonphysician Otolaryngology Health Care Workers: A National Study
title_full_unstemmed Snapshot Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Wellness in Nonphysician Otolaryngology Health Care Workers: A National Study
title_short Snapshot Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Wellness in Nonphysician Otolaryngology Health Care Workers: A National Study
title_sort snapshot impact of covid-19 on mental wellness in nonphysician otolaryngology health care workers: a national study
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7415941/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32839747
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2473974X20948835
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