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Mental Health, Burnout, and Job Stressors Among Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Iran: A Cross-Sectional Survey

INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused increasing levels of mental health problems such as anxiety and depression among doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers in hospitals or health centers. The main objective of this study was to assess the mental health, job stressors, and burnout am...

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Autores principales: Hajebi, Ahmad, Abbasinejad, Maryam, Zafar, Masoud, Hajebi, Amirali, Taremian, Farhad
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9133377/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35633777
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.891430
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author Hajebi, Ahmad
Abbasinejad, Maryam
Zafar, Masoud
Hajebi, Amirali
Taremian, Farhad
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Abbasinejad, Maryam
Zafar, Masoud
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description INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused increasing levels of mental health problems such as anxiety and depression among doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers in hospitals or health centers. The main objective of this study was to assess the mental health, job stressors, and burnout among healthcare workers in Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional study was performed in the primary healthcare centers and hospitals affiliated with six of the medical universities in Iran. The selection of participants was done using multi-center convenient sampling. The Patient Health Questionnaire-9, Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7, and Copenhagen Burnout Inventory were used for gathering data through an online platform. Data related to job stressors were obtained using a validated checklist. Data analysis was performed using Chi-square and multiple regression tests and the phi coefficient. RESULTS: The results of our study showed that 53% of the healthcare workers of the hospitals and primary healthcare centers enrolled in our study either had generalized anxiety disorder or major depressive disorder or both disorders. Moderate and high levels of burnout were seen among 48.9% of the study participants. The prevalence of mental disorders and burnout were significantly higher among the female healthcare workers compared to the male (p = 0.0001) and a higher rate of mental disorder and burnout was also seen among healthcare workers of hospitals compared to those working in primary healthcare centers (p = 0.024). “Worry about children and old members of family,” “family worries for my health condition” and “lack of specific effective treatment for COVID-19” were found to be predictive of mental disorder and burnout. The most prevalent job stressor among the total sample was “low payment or income during the COVID-19 period”. CONCLUSION: The results of our study revealed high psychological distress and burnout among healthcare workers of the hospitals during the fourth peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran. This study highlights the need for health officials to pay attention to the job stressors of healthcare workers and obliges them to perform effective interventions to address their needs and concerns.
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spelling pubmed-91333772022-05-27 Mental Health, Burnout, and Job Stressors Among Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Iran: A Cross-Sectional Survey Hajebi, Ahmad Abbasinejad, Maryam Zafar, Masoud Hajebi, Amirali Taremian, Farhad Front Psychiatry Psychiatry INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused increasing levels of mental health problems such as anxiety and depression among doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers in hospitals or health centers. The main objective of this study was to assess the mental health, job stressors, and burnout among healthcare workers in Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional study was performed in the primary healthcare centers and hospitals affiliated with six of the medical universities in Iran. The selection of participants was done using multi-center convenient sampling. The Patient Health Questionnaire-9, Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7, and Copenhagen Burnout Inventory were used for gathering data through an online platform. Data related to job stressors were obtained using a validated checklist. Data analysis was performed using Chi-square and multiple regression tests and the phi coefficient. RESULTS: The results of our study showed that 53% of the healthcare workers of the hospitals and primary healthcare centers enrolled in our study either had generalized anxiety disorder or major depressive disorder or both disorders. Moderate and high levels of burnout were seen among 48.9% of the study participants. The prevalence of mental disorders and burnout were significantly higher among the female healthcare workers compared to the male (p = 0.0001) and a higher rate of mental disorder and burnout was also seen among healthcare workers of hospitals compared to those working in primary healthcare centers (p = 0.024). “Worry about children and old members of family,” “family worries for my health condition” and “lack of specific effective treatment for COVID-19” were found to be predictive of mental disorder and burnout. The most prevalent job stressor among the total sample was “low payment or income during the COVID-19 period”. CONCLUSION: The results of our study revealed high psychological distress and burnout among healthcare workers of the hospitals during the fourth peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran. This study highlights the need for health officials to pay attention to the job stressors of healthcare workers and obliges them to perform effective interventions to address their needs and concerns. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-05-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9133377/ /pubmed/35633777 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.891430 Text en Copyright © 2022 Hajebi, Abbasinejad, Zafar, Hajebi and Taremian. 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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Hajebi, Ahmad
Abbasinejad, Maryam
Zafar, Masoud
Hajebi, Amirali
Taremian, Farhad
Mental Health, Burnout, and Job Stressors Among Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Iran: A Cross-Sectional Survey
title Mental Health, Burnout, and Job Stressors Among Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Iran: A Cross-Sectional Survey
title_full Mental Health, Burnout, and Job Stressors Among Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Iran: A Cross-Sectional Survey
title_fullStr Mental Health, Burnout, and Job Stressors Among Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Iran: A Cross-Sectional Survey
title_full_unstemmed Mental Health, Burnout, and Job Stressors Among Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Iran: A Cross-Sectional Survey
title_short Mental Health, Burnout, and Job Stressors Among Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Iran: A Cross-Sectional Survey
title_sort mental health, burnout, and job stressors among healthcare workers during the covid-19 pandemic in iran: a cross-sectional survey
topic Psychiatry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9133377/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35633777
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.891430
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