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Anxiety About the Risk of Death of Their Patients in Health Professionals in Spain: Analysis at the Peak of the COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 health crisis has had a global effect, but the consequences in the different countries affected have been very different. In Spain, in a short period of time, health professionals went from a situation of stability to living with a working environment characterized by overcrowded hospit...

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Autores principales: Lázaro-Pérez, Cristina, Martínez-López, Jose Ángel, Gómez-Galán, José, López-Meneses, Eloy
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7460391/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32824258
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17165938
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author Lázaro-Pérez, Cristina
Martínez-López, Jose Ángel
Gómez-Galán, José
López-Meneses, Eloy
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Martínez-López, Jose Ángel
Gómez-Galán, José
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description The COVID-19 health crisis has had a global effect, but the consequences in the different countries affected have been very different. In Spain, in a short period of time, health professionals went from a situation of stability to living with a working environment characterized by overcrowded hospitals, lack of individual protection equipment, non-existent or contradictory work protocols, as well as an unknown increase in mortality. Although in their professional activity health workers are closely linked to death processes, in recent months, working conditions and health emergencies have drawn an unheard of working scenario, with the stress and anxiety they may suffer when faced with the death of their patients. The present quantitative research was carried out in different hospitals in Spain on health professionals during the month of April 2020. Through the subscale of anxiety in the face of the death of others, developed by Collett–Lester, it has been verified that health professionals have had to develop their work in a context of precariousness, putting at risk both their individual and collective health, notably increasing anxiety in the face of the death of their patients. The predictive variables of this anxiety have been the absence of individual protection equipment, as well as high levels in the burnout subscales of emotional exhaustion and depersonalization.
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spelling pubmed-74603912020-09-02 Anxiety About the Risk of Death of Their Patients in Health Professionals in Spain: Analysis at the Peak of the COVID-19 Pandemic Lázaro-Pérez, Cristina Martínez-López, Jose Ángel Gómez-Galán, José López-Meneses, Eloy Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The COVID-19 health crisis has had a global effect, but the consequences in the different countries affected have been very different. In Spain, in a short period of time, health professionals went from a situation of stability to living with a working environment characterized by overcrowded hospitals, lack of individual protection equipment, non-existent or contradictory work protocols, as well as an unknown increase in mortality. Although in their professional activity health workers are closely linked to death processes, in recent months, working conditions and health emergencies have drawn an unheard of working scenario, with the stress and anxiety they may suffer when faced with the death of their patients. The present quantitative research was carried out in different hospitals in Spain on health professionals during the month of April 2020. Through the subscale of anxiety in the face of the death of others, developed by Collett–Lester, it has been verified that health professionals have had to develop their work in a context of precariousness, putting at risk both their individual and collective health, notably increasing anxiety in the face of the death of their patients. The predictive variables of this anxiety have been the absence of individual protection equipment, as well as high levels in the burnout subscales of emotional exhaustion and depersonalization. MDPI 2020-08-15 2020-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7460391/ /pubmed/32824258 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17165938 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Anxiety About the Risk of Death of Their Patients in Health Professionals in Spain: Analysis at the Peak of the COVID-19 Pandemic
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title_short Anxiety About the Risk of Death of Their Patients in Health Professionals in Spain: Analysis at the Peak of the COVID-19 Pandemic
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7460391/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32824258
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17165938
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