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The “Healthcare Workers’ Wellbeing (Benessere Operatori)” Project: A Picture of the Mental Health Conditions of Italian Healthcare Workers during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic
During the last year, the COVID-19 outbreak put all the healthcare workers around the world at risk of physical and psychological sequelae. The general purpose of the present study was to assess the mental health of Italian healthcare workers during the COVID-19 outbreak and to identify high-risk gr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8156728/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34063421 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18105267 |
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author | Di Mattei, Valentina Elisabetta Perego, Gaia Milano, Francesca Mazzetti, Martina Taranto, Paola Di Pierro, Rossella De Panfilis, Chiara Madeddu, Fabio Preti, Emanuele |
author_facet | Di Mattei, Valentina Elisabetta Perego, Gaia Milano, Francesca Mazzetti, Martina Taranto, Paola Di Pierro, Rossella De Panfilis, Chiara Madeddu, Fabio Preti, Emanuele |
author_sort | Di Mattei, Valentina Elisabetta |
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description | During the last year, the COVID-19 outbreak put all the healthcare workers around the world at risk of physical and psychological sequelae. The general purpose of the present study was to assess the mental health of Italian healthcare workers during the COVID-19 outbreak and to identify high-risk groups. Here, we present results from the baseline assessment of the “Healthcare workers’ wellbeing (Benessere Operatori)” project on a sample of 1055 healthcare workers. Participants completed the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-21, the Insomnia Severity Index, the Impact of Event Scale-Revised, the State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory-2, and the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Healthcare workers who worked in COVID wards reported higher levels of anxiety, insomnia, post-traumatic stress, anger, and burnout, compared to those reported by the healthcare workers who worked in non-COVID wards. Moreover, nurses, both in COVID and non-COVID wards, were at higher risk of experiencing psychological distress compared to other groups of healthcare workers. These findings highlight the importance of implementing targeted psychological interventions for healthcare workers operating in COVID wards and nurses, who seem to be the most vulnerable categories. |
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spelling | pubmed-81567282021-05-28 The “Healthcare Workers’ Wellbeing (Benessere Operatori)” Project: A Picture of the Mental Health Conditions of Italian Healthcare Workers during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic Di Mattei, Valentina Elisabetta Perego, Gaia Milano, Francesca Mazzetti, Martina Taranto, Paola Di Pierro, Rossella De Panfilis, Chiara Madeddu, Fabio Preti, Emanuele Int J Environ Res Public Health Article During the last year, the COVID-19 outbreak put all the healthcare workers around the world at risk of physical and psychological sequelae. The general purpose of the present study was to assess the mental health of Italian healthcare workers during the COVID-19 outbreak and to identify high-risk groups. Here, we present results from the baseline assessment of the “Healthcare workers’ wellbeing (Benessere Operatori)” project on a sample of 1055 healthcare workers. Participants completed the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-21, the Insomnia Severity Index, the Impact of Event Scale-Revised, the State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory-2, and the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Healthcare workers who worked in COVID wards reported higher levels of anxiety, insomnia, post-traumatic stress, anger, and burnout, compared to those reported by the healthcare workers who worked in non-COVID wards. Moreover, nurses, both in COVID and non-COVID wards, were at higher risk of experiencing psychological distress compared to other groups of healthcare workers. These findings highlight the importance of implementing targeted psychological interventions for healthcare workers operating in COVID wards and nurses, who seem to be the most vulnerable categories. MDPI 2021-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8156728/ /pubmed/34063421 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18105267 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Di Mattei, Valentina Elisabetta Perego, Gaia Milano, Francesca Mazzetti, Martina Taranto, Paola Di Pierro, Rossella De Panfilis, Chiara Madeddu, Fabio Preti, Emanuele The “Healthcare Workers’ Wellbeing (Benessere Operatori)” Project: A Picture of the Mental Health Conditions of Italian Healthcare Workers during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title | The “Healthcare Workers’ Wellbeing (Benessere Operatori)” Project: A Picture of the Mental Health Conditions of Italian Healthcare Workers during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full | The “Healthcare Workers’ Wellbeing (Benessere Operatori)” Project: A Picture of the Mental Health Conditions of Italian Healthcare Workers during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_fullStr | The “Healthcare Workers’ Wellbeing (Benessere Operatori)” Project: A Picture of the Mental Health Conditions of Italian Healthcare Workers during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | The “Healthcare Workers’ Wellbeing (Benessere Operatori)” Project: A Picture of the Mental Health Conditions of Italian Healthcare Workers during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_short | The “Healthcare Workers’ Wellbeing (Benessere Operatori)” Project: A Picture of the Mental Health Conditions of Italian Healthcare Workers during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_sort | “healthcare workers’ wellbeing (benessere operatori)” project: a picture of the mental health conditions of italian healthcare workers during the first wave of the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8156728/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34063421 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18105267 |
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