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Differences Between the Psychological Symptoms of Health Workers and General Community After the First Wave of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Spain

The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) has worsened the physical and mental health of the general population. Healthcare workers have a high risk of suffering a mental disorder after the first wave. In this way, psychologists, who deal with mental health issues and are considered as healthcare work...

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Autores principales: Reno-Chanca, Sergio, Van Hoey, Julie, Santolaya-Prego de Oliver, Jesús Alberto, Blasko-Ochoa, Ilargi, Sanfeliu Aguilar, Pilar, Moret-Tatay, Carmen
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8446452/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34539479
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.644212
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author Reno-Chanca, Sergio
Van Hoey, Julie
Santolaya-Prego de Oliver, Jesús Alberto
Blasko-Ochoa, Ilargi
Sanfeliu Aguilar, Pilar
Moret-Tatay, Carmen
author_facet Reno-Chanca, Sergio
Van Hoey, Julie
Santolaya-Prego de Oliver, Jesús Alberto
Blasko-Ochoa, Ilargi
Sanfeliu Aguilar, Pilar
Moret-Tatay, Carmen
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description The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) has worsened the physical and mental health of the general population. Healthcare workers have a high risk of suffering a mental disorder after the first wave. In this way, psychologists, who deal with mental health issues and are considered as healthcare workers in many countries, are of interest in this context. The present study aimed to examine anxiety, depression, stress, and obsessions and compulsions across psychologists, healthcare professionals, and the general community. These variables were measured through the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-21), as well as the Yale–Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS), which are related to different sociodemographic variables. The study was carried out after the first wave in Spain through an online questionnaire. Structural equation modeling and a multigroup analysis were carried out across the groups and variables under study. The results suggested that; (i) healthcare workers and general community depicted similar results in anxiety and stress, as well as obsessions; (ii) the group of psychologists depicted better scores than the other groups under study; (iii) stress and anxiety did not predict compulsions in the group of psychologists; (iv) anxiety predicted obsessions for all the professions, while the relationship of this variable with stress was different for each group; and (v) invariance reached a full metric level.
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spelling pubmed-84464522021-09-18 Differences Between the Psychological Symptoms of Health Workers and General Community After the First Wave of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Spain Reno-Chanca, Sergio Van Hoey, Julie Santolaya-Prego de Oliver, Jesús Alberto Blasko-Ochoa, Ilargi Sanfeliu Aguilar, Pilar Moret-Tatay, Carmen Front Psychol Psychology The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) has worsened the physical and mental health of the general population. Healthcare workers have a high risk of suffering a mental disorder after the first wave. In this way, psychologists, who deal with mental health issues and are considered as healthcare workers in many countries, are of interest in this context. The present study aimed to examine anxiety, depression, stress, and obsessions and compulsions across psychologists, healthcare professionals, and the general community. These variables were measured through the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-21), as well as the Yale–Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS), which are related to different sociodemographic variables. The study was carried out after the first wave in Spain through an online questionnaire. Structural equation modeling and a multigroup analysis were carried out across the groups and variables under study. The results suggested that; (i) healthcare workers and general community depicted similar results in anxiety and stress, as well as obsessions; (ii) the group of psychologists depicted better scores than the other groups under study; (iii) stress and anxiety did not predict compulsions in the group of psychologists; (iv) anxiety predicted obsessions for all the professions, while the relationship of this variable with stress was different for each group; and (v) invariance reached a full metric level. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-09-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8446452/ /pubmed/34539479 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.644212 Text en Copyright © 2021 Reno-Chanca, Van Hoey, Santolaya-Prego de Oliver, Blasko-Ochoa, Sanfeliu Aguilar and Moret-Tatay. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Reno-Chanca, Sergio
Van Hoey, Julie
Santolaya-Prego de Oliver, Jesús Alberto
Blasko-Ochoa, Ilargi
Sanfeliu Aguilar, Pilar
Moret-Tatay, Carmen
Differences Between the Psychological Symptoms of Health Workers and General Community After the First Wave of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Spain
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title_full Differences Between the Psychological Symptoms of Health Workers and General Community After the First Wave of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Spain
title_fullStr Differences Between the Psychological Symptoms of Health Workers and General Community After the First Wave of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Spain
title_full_unstemmed Differences Between the Psychological Symptoms of Health Workers and General Community After the First Wave of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Spain
title_short Differences Between the Psychological Symptoms of Health Workers and General Community After the First Wave of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Spain
title_sort differences between the psychological symptoms of health workers and general community after the first wave of the covid-19 outbreak in spain
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8446452/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34539479
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.644212
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