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Professional Quality of Life and Mental Health Outcomes among Health Care Workers Exposed to Sars-Cov-2 (Covid-19)

The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a global pandemic spreading worldwide, and Italy represented the first European country involved. Healthcare workers (HCWs) facing COVID-19 pandemic represented an at-risk population for new psychosocial COVID-19 strain and consequent mental health sy...

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Autores principales: Buselli, Rodolfo, Corsi, Martina, Baldanzi, Sigrid, Chiumiento, Martina, Del Lupo, Elena, Dell’Oste, Valerio, Bertelloni, Carlo Antonio, Massimetti, Gabriele, Dell’Osso, Liliana, Cristaudo, Alfonso, Carmassi, Claudia
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7504107/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32858810
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17176180
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author Buselli, Rodolfo
Corsi, Martina
Baldanzi, Sigrid
Chiumiento, Martina
Del Lupo, Elena
Dell’Oste, Valerio
Bertelloni, Carlo Antonio
Massimetti, Gabriele
Dell’Osso, Liliana
Cristaudo, Alfonso
Carmassi, Claudia
author_facet Buselli, Rodolfo
Corsi, Martina
Baldanzi, Sigrid
Chiumiento, Martina
Del Lupo, Elena
Dell’Oste, Valerio
Bertelloni, Carlo Antonio
Massimetti, Gabriele
Dell’Osso, Liliana
Cristaudo, Alfonso
Carmassi, Claudia
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description The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a global pandemic spreading worldwide, and Italy represented the first European country involved. Healthcare workers (HCWs) facing COVID-19 pandemic represented an at-risk population for new psychosocial COVID-19 strain and consequent mental health symptoms. The aim of the present study was to identify the possible impact of working contextual and personal variables (age, gender, working position, years of experience, proximity to infected patients) on professional quality of life, represented by compassion satisfaction (CS), burnout, and secondary traumatization (ST), in HCWs facing COVID-19 emergency. Further, two multivariable linear regression analyses were fitted to explore the association of mental health selected outcomes, anxiety and depression, with some personal and working characteristics that are COVID-19-related. A sample of 265 HCWs of a major university hospital in central Italy was consecutively recruited at the outpatient service of the Occupational Health Department during the acute phase of COVID-19 pandemic. HCWs were assessed by Professional Quality of Life-5 (ProQOL-5), the Nine-Item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), and the Seven-Item Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale (GAD-7) to evaluate, respectively, CS, burnout, ST, and symptoms of depression and anxiety. Females showed higher ST than males, while frontline staff and healthcare assistants reported higher CS rather than second-line staff and physicians, respectively. Burnout and ST, besides some work or personal variables, were associated to depressive or anxiety scores. The COVID-19 pandemic represents a new working challenge for HCWs and intervention strategies to prevent burnout and ST to reduce the risk of adverse mental health outcomes are needed.
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spelling pubmed-75041072020-09-24 Professional Quality of Life and Mental Health Outcomes among Health Care Workers Exposed to Sars-Cov-2 (Covid-19) Buselli, Rodolfo Corsi, Martina Baldanzi, Sigrid Chiumiento, Martina Del Lupo, Elena Dell’Oste, Valerio Bertelloni, Carlo Antonio Massimetti, Gabriele Dell’Osso, Liliana Cristaudo, Alfonso Carmassi, Claudia Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a global pandemic spreading worldwide, and Italy represented the first European country involved. Healthcare workers (HCWs) facing COVID-19 pandemic represented an at-risk population for new psychosocial COVID-19 strain and consequent mental health symptoms. The aim of the present study was to identify the possible impact of working contextual and personal variables (age, gender, working position, years of experience, proximity to infected patients) on professional quality of life, represented by compassion satisfaction (CS), burnout, and secondary traumatization (ST), in HCWs facing COVID-19 emergency. Further, two multivariable linear regression analyses were fitted to explore the association of mental health selected outcomes, anxiety and depression, with some personal and working characteristics that are COVID-19-related. A sample of 265 HCWs of a major university hospital in central Italy was consecutively recruited at the outpatient service of the Occupational Health Department during the acute phase of COVID-19 pandemic. HCWs were assessed by Professional Quality of Life-5 (ProQOL-5), the Nine-Item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), and the Seven-Item Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale (GAD-7) to evaluate, respectively, CS, burnout, ST, and symptoms of depression and anxiety. Females showed higher ST than males, while frontline staff and healthcare assistants reported higher CS rather than second-line staff and physicians, respectively. Burnout and ST, besides some work or personal variables, were associated to depressive or anxiety scores. The COVID-19 pandemic represents a new working challenge for HCWs and intervention strategies to prevent burnout and ST to reduce the risk of adverse mental health outcomes are needed. MDPI 2020-08-26 2020-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7504107/ /pubmed/32858810 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17176180 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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Corsi, Martina
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Chiumiento, Martina
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Bertelloni, Carlo Antonio
Massimetti, Gabriele
Dell’Osso, Liliana
Cristaudo, Alfonso
Carmassi, Claudia
Professional Quality of Life and Mental Health Outcomes among Health Care Workers Exposed to Sars-Cov-2 (Covid-19)
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title_fullStr Professional Quality of Life and Mental Health Outcomes among Health Care Workers Exposed to Sars-Cov-2 (Covid-19)
title_full_unstemmed Professional Quality of Life and Mental Health Outcomes among Health Care Workers Exposed to Sars-Cov-2 (Covid-19)
title_short Professional Quality of Life and Mental Health Outcomes among Health Care Workers Exposed to Sars-Cov-2 (Covid-19)
title_sort professional quality of life and mental health outcomes among health care workers exposed to sars-cov-2 (covid-19)
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7504107/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32858810
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17176180
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