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Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health of Healthcare Workers
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has a great impact on healthcare workers (HCWs) that includes negative mental health outcomes, such as post-traumatic stress, anxiety and depressive symptoms. In this cross-sectional study, we report on mental health outcomes among HCWs in Cyprus. Data were co...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7913751/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33546513 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18041435 |
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author | Chatzittofis, Andreas Karanikola, Maria Michailidou, Kyriaki Constantinidou, Anastasia |
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description | The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has a great impact on healthcare workers (HCWs) that includes negative mental health outcomes, such as post-traumatic stress, anxiety and depressive symptoms. In this cross-sectional study, we report on mental health outcomes among HCWs in Cyprus. Data were collected between 3 May and 27 May 2020, with the use of an online questionnaire that included demographics (sex, age, occupation, education, work sector, years of work experience), the 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) which assesses depressive symptoms, the Impact of Events Scale Revised (IES-R), which measures post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, and the-10 item Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10) which quantifies stress responses. Participants (42% physicians, 24% nurses, 18% physiotherapists, 16% classified as “other”) were 58% of female gender and aged 21–76. A total of 79 (18.6%) and 62 HCWs (14.6%) reported clinically significant depressive (PHQ-9 ≥ 10) and post-traumatic stress (IES-R > 33) symptoms respectively. Nurses were more likely than physicians to suffer from depression (adjusted prevalence ratio 1.7 (1.06–2.73); p = 0.035) and PTSD (adjusted prevalence ratio 2.51 (1.49–4.23); p = 0.001). Even in a country with a rather low spread of the COVID-19, such as Cyprus, HCWs reported a substantial mental health burden, with nurses reporting increased depressive and PTSD symptoms compared to other HCWs. |
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spelling | pubmed-79137512021-02-28 Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health of Healthcare Workers Chatzittofis, Andreas Karanikola, Maria Michailidou, Kyriaki Constantinidou, Anastasia Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has a great impact on healthcare workers (HCWs) that includes negative mental health outcomes, such as post-traumatic stress, anxiety and depressive symptoms. In this cross-sectional study, we report on mental health outcomes among HCWs in Cyprus. Data were collected between 3 May and 27 May 2020, with the use of an online questionnaire that included demographics (sex, age, occupation, education, work sector, years of work experience), the 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) which assesses depressive symptoms, the Impact of Events Scale Revised (IES-R), which measures post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, and the-10 item Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10) which quantifies stress responses. Participants (42% physicians, 24% nurses, 18% physiotherapists, 16% classified as “other”) were 58% of female gender and aged 21–76. A total of 79 (18.6%) and 62 HCWs (14.6%) reported clinically significant depressive (PHQ-9 ≥ 10) and post-traumatic stress (IES-R > 33) symptoms respectively. Nurses were more likely than physicians to suffer from depression (adjusted prevalence ratio 1.7 (1.06–2.73); p = 0.035) and PTSD (adjusted prevalence ratio 2.51 (1.49–4.23); p = 0.001). Even in a country with a rather low spread of the COVID-19, such as Cyprus, HCWs reported a substantial mental health burden, with nurses reporting increased depressive and PTSD symptoms compared to other HCWs. MDPI 2021-02-03 2021-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7913751/ /pubmed/33546513 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18041435 Text en © 2021 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/). |
spellingShingle | Article Chatzittofis, Andreas Karanikola, Maria Michailidou, Kyriaki Constantinidou, Anastasia Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health of Healthcare Workers |
title | Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health of Healthcare Workers |
title_full | Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health of Healthcare Workers |
title_fullStr | Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health of Healthcare Workers |
title_full_unstemmed | Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health of Healthcare Workers |
title_short | Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health of Healthcare Workers |
title_sort | impact of the covid-19 pandemic on the mental health of healthcare workers |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7913751/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33546513 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18041435 |
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