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Mental Health Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic Long-Term Exposure in Italian Dermatologists
The present study aimed at assessing the consequences of prolonged exposure to COVID-19 distress on mental health in non-frontline health care workers. For this purpose, we have conducted a survey on 425 Italian dermatologists, in the period February–March 2021. The psychopathological symptoms, depr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8583040/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34769757 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182111239 |
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author | Ciuluvica (Neagu), Cristina Gualdi, Giulio Dal Canton, Marco Fantini, Fabrizio Paradisi, Andrea Sbano, Paolo Simonacci, Marco Dusi, Daniele Vezzoni, Gian Marco D’Acunto, Carmine Lombardo, Maurizio Zanchi, Malvina Alfredo, Zucchi Eisendle, Klaus Prignano, Francesca Amerio, Paolo |
author_facet | Ciuluvica (Neagu), Cristina Gualdi, Giulio Dal Canton, Marco Fantini, Fabrizio Paradisi, Andrea Sbano, Paolo Simonacci, Marco Dusi, Daniele Vezzoni, Gian Marco D’Acunto, Carmine Lombardo, Maurizio Zanchi, Malvina Alfredo, Zucchi Eisendle, Klaus Prignano, Francesca Amerio, Paolo |
author_sort | Ciuluvica (Neagu), Cristina |
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description | The present study aimed at assessing the consequences of prolonged exposure to COVID-19 distress on mental health in non-frontline health care workers. For this purpose, we have conducted a survey on 425 Italian dermatologists, in the period February–March 2021. The psychopathological symptoms, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSD), as well as resilience, have been evaluated. The main factors that influence the physician’s psychological health have been also investigated. Our study showed that the physicians older than 40 years, as well as those who lived this period in company, reported more personal resources, better managing the distress. Resilience, COVID-19 beliefs, COVID-19 working difficulties, and age were the common predictors of the severe psychopathological symptoms. An interesting result is that the lower level of resilience was the most powerful predictor of a more severe depression, as well as of a higher severity of generalized anxiety disorder, but not of COVID-19 PTSD. The fear of COVID-19 was the most powerful predictor of COVID-19 PTSD. Home conditions and previous SARS-CoV2 infection constituted significant predictors of severe depressive symptoms, but not of anxiety and COVID-19 PTSD. These results are useful in a better understanding of protective and risk factors involved in COVID-19 long-term distress exposure. |
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spelling | pubmed-85830402021-11-12 Mental Health Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic Long-Term Exposure in Italian Dermatologists Ciuluvica (Neagu), Cristina Gualdi, Giulio Dal Canton, Marco Fantini, Fabrizio Paradisi, Andrea Sbano, Paolo Simonacci, Marco Dusi, Daniele Vezzoni, Gian Marco D’Acunto, Carmine Lombardo, Maurizio Zanchi, Malvina Alfredo, Zucchi Eisendle, Klaus Prignano, Francesca Amerio, Paolo Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The present study aimed at assessing the consequences of prolonged exposure to COVID-19 distress on mental health in non-frontline health care workers. For this purpose, we have conducted a survey on 425 Italian dermatologists, in the period February–March 2021. The psychopathological symptoms, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSD), as well as resilience, have been evaluated. The main factors that influence the physician’s psychological health have been also investigated. Our study showed that the physicians older than 40 years, as well as those who lived this period in company, reported more personal resources, better managing the distress. Resilience, COVID-19 beliefs, COVID-19 working difficulties, and age were the common predictors of the severe psychopathological symptoms. An interesting result is that the lower level of resilience was the most powerful predictor of a more severe depression, as well as of a higher severity of generalized anxiety disorder, but not of COVID-19 PTSD. The fear of COVID-19 was the most powerful predictor of COVID-19 PTSD. Home conditions and previous SARS-CoV2 infection constituted significant predictors of severe depressive symptoms, but not of anxiety and COVID-19 PTSD. These results are useful in a better understanding of protective and risk factors involved in COVID-19 long-term distress exposure. MDPI 2021-10-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8583040/ /pubmed/34769757 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182111239 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 Ciuluvica (Neagu), Cristina Gualdi, Giulio Dal Canton, Marco Fantini, Fabrizio Paradisi, Andrea Sbano, Paolo Simonacci, Marco Dusi, Daniele Vezzoni, Gian Marco D’Acunto, Carmine Lombardo, Maurizio Zanchi, Malvina Alfredo, Zucchi Eisendle, Klaus Prignano, Francesca Amerio, Paolo Mental Health Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic Long-Term Exposure in Italian Dermatologists |
title | Mental Health Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic Long-Term Exposure in Italian Dermatologists |
title_full | Mental Health Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic Long-Term Exposure in Italian Dermatologists |
title_fullStr | Mental Health Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic Long-Term Exposure in Italian Dermatologists |
title_full_unstemmed | Mental Health Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic Long-Term Exposure in Italian Dermatologists |
title_short | Mental Health Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic Long-Term Exposure in Italian Dermatologists |
title_sort | mental health consequences of the covid-19 pandemic long-term exposure in italian dermatologists |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8583040/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34769757 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182111239 |
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