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The prevalence of common mental disorders among healthcare professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic at a tertiary Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has resulted in unprecedented morbidity, mortality, and health system crisis leading to a significant psychological destress on healthcare workers (HCWs). The study aimed to determine the prevalence of symptoms of common mental disorders among HCWs dur...

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Autores principales: Mulatu, Hailu Abera, Tesfaye, Muluken, Woldeyes, Esubalew, Bayisa, Tola, Fisseha, Henok, Kassu, Rodas Asrat
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8510880/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34661189
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2021.100246
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author Mulatu, Hailu Abera
Tesfaye, Muluken
Woldeyes, Esubalew
Bayisa, Tola
Fisseha, Henok
Kassu, Rodas Asrat
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Tesfaye, Muluken
Woldeyes, Esubalew
Bayisa, Tola
Fisseha, Henok
Kassu, Rodas Asrat
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description BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has resulted in unprecedented morbidity, mortality, and health system crisis leading to a significant psychological destress on healthcare workers (HCWs). The study aimed to determine the prevalence of symptoms of common mental disorders among HCWs during the COVID-19 pandemic at St. Paul's Hospital, Ethiopia. METHODS: A self-administered cross-sectional study was conducted to collect socio-demographic information and symptoms of mental disorders using validated measurement tools. Accordingly, PHQ-9, GAD-7, ISI, and IES-R were used to assess the presence of symptoms of depression, anxiety, insomnia, and distress, respectively. Chi-square test, non-parametric, and logistic regression analysis were used to detect risk factors for common mental disorders. RESULTS: A total of 420 healthcare workers participated in the survey. The prevalence of symptoms of depression, anxiety, insomnia, and psychological distress was 20.2%, 21.9%, 12.4%, and 15.5% respectively. Frontline HCWs had higher scores of mental health symptoms than non-frontline healthcare workers. Binary logistic regression analysis showed that being married was associated with a high level of depression. Furthermore, working in a frontline position was an independent risk factor associated with a high-level of symptoms of depression, anxiety, and psychological distress. LIMITATIONS: It is a single-center cross-sectional study and the findings may not be nationally representative or reveal causality. CONCLUSIONS: A significant proportion of healthcare workers are suffering from symptoms of mental disorders. Frontline HCWs were at a greater risk of severe symptoms. Therefore, psychological interventions should be implemented to support health professionals, especially frontline workers.
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spelling pubmed-85108802021-10-13 The prevalence of common mental disorders among healthcare professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic at a tertiary Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Mulatu, Hailu Abera Tesfaye, Muluken Woldeyes, Esubalew Bayisa, Tola Fisseha, Henok Kassu, Rodas Asrat J Affect Disord Rep Research Paper BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has resulted in unprecedented morbidity, mortality, and health system crisis leading to a significant psychological destress on healthcare workers (HCWs). The study aimed to determine the prevalence of symptoms of common mental disorders among HCWs during the COVID-19 pandemic at St. Paul's Hospital, Ethiopia. METHODS: A self-administered cross-sectional study was conducted to collect socio-demographic information and symptoms of mental disorders using validated measurement tools. Accordingly, PHQ-9, GAD-7, ISI, and IES-R were used to assess the presence of symptoms of depression, anxiety, insomnia, and distress, respectively. Chi-square test, non-parametric, and logistic regression analysis were used to detect risk factors for common mental disorders. RESULTS: A total of 420 healthcare workers participated in the survey. The prevalence of symptoms of depression, anxiety, insomnia, and psychological distress was 20.2%, 21.9%, 12.4%, and 15.5% respectively. Frontline HCWs had higher scores of mental health symptoms than non-frontline healthcare workers. Binary logistic regression analysis showed that being married was associated with a high level of depression. Furthermore, working in a frontline position was an independent risk factor associated with a high-level of symptoms of depression, anxiety, and psychological distress. LIMITATIONS: It is a single-center cross-sectional study and the findings may not be nationally representative or reveal causality. CONCLUSIONS: A significant proportion of healthcare workers are suffering from symptoms of mental disorders. Frontline HCWs were at a greater risk of severe symptoms. Therefore, psychological interventions should be implemented to support health professionals, especially frontline workers. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. 2021-12 2021-10-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8510880/ /pubmed/34661189 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2021.100246 Text en © 2021 The Author(s) Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Mulatu, Hailu Abera
Tesfaye, Muluken
Woldeyes, Esubalew
Bayisa, Tola
Fisseha, Henok
Kassu, Rodas Asrat
The prevalence of common mental disorders among healthcare professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic at a tertiary Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
title The prevalence of common mental disorders among healthcare professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic at a tertiary Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
title_full The prevalence of common mental disorders among healthcare professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic at a tertiary Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
title_fullStr The prevalence of common mental disorders among healthcare professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic at a tertiary Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
title_full_unstemmed The prevalence of common mental disorders among healthcare professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic at a tertiary Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
title_short The prevalence of common mental disorders among healthcare professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic at a tertiary Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
title_sort prevalence of common mental disorders among healthcare professionals during the covid-19 pandemic at a tertiary hospital in addis ababa, ethiopia
topic Research Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8510880/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34661189
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2021.100246
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