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Evaluation of the perception of physical and emotional health of ophthalmologists in Spain and the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic

OBJECTIVE: The main objective was to study the perception of physical and emotional health of Spanish ophthalmologists and their health habits, as well as the possible influence of the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: An observational, cross-sectional, non-randomized and uncontrolled study was carried ou...

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Autores principales: Burgos-Blasco, B., Caballero-Linares, C.F., Fernández-Pérez, C., Gegúndez-Fernández, J.A., García-Feijóo, J., Arriola-Villalobos, P.
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Publicado: Elsevier Masson SAS. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9212495/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35760600
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jfo.2022.03.010
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author Burgos-Blasco, B.
Caballero-Linares, C.F.
Fernández-Pérez, C.
Gegúndez-Fernández, J.A.
García-Feijóo, J.
Arriola-Villalobos, P.
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Caballero-Linares, C.F.
Fernández-Pérez, C.
Gegúndez-Fernández, J.A.
García-Feijóo, J.
Arriola-Villalobos, P.
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description OBJECTIVE: The main objective was to study the perception of physical and emotional health of Spanish ophthalmologists and their health habits, as well as the possible influence of the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: An observational, cross-sectional, non-randomized and uncontrolled study was carried out among at Spanish ophthalmologists through an online survey of 47 questions on eating habits, tobacco, alcohol, physical exercise, workload, and perception of physical and emotional state. RESULTS: Of a total of 2,179 ophthalmologists, 260 (11.9%) of whom 55% were men responded to the survey, with a mean age of 52.9 ± 11.4 years. 5.8% were smokers. In total, 51.5% reported good physical health, with a mean Body Mass Index of 24.4 kg/m(2). Overall, 53.5% reported depression, 66.9% tiredness, 34.6% difficulty sleeping, and 57.3% considered their work hard. Up to 28.5% of those surveyed had thought about leaving their job and 60.8% about reorganizing their workload. In total, 91.9% would continue to choose Ophthalmology as a specialty. In total, 36.2% reported an increase in workload, 42.3% worsening of physical state and 63.8% worsening of emotional state as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. CONCLUSIONS: Spanish ophthalmologists have a positive perception of their physical and emotional health, despite having life habits that are not always healthy and feeling mostly down. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a negative influence on the physical and emotional health of ophthalmologists.
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spelling pubmed-92124952022-06-22 Evaluation of the perception of physical and emotional health of ophthalmologists in Spain and the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic Burgos-Blasco, B. Caballero-Linares, C.F. Fernández-Pérez, C. Gegúndez-Fernández, J.A. García-Feijóo, J. Arriola-Villalobos, P. J Fr Ophtalmol Original Article OBJECTIVE: The main objective was to study the perception of physical and emotional health of Spanish ophthalmologists and their health habits, as well as the possible influence of the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: An observational, cross-sectional, non-randomized and uncontrolled study was carried out among at Spanish ophthalmologists through an online survey of 47 questions on eating habits, tobacco, alcohol, physical exercise, workload, and perception of physical and emotional state. RESULTS: Of a total of 2,179 ophthalmologists, 260 (11.9%) of whom 55% were men responded to the survey, with a mean age of 52.9 ± 11.4 years. 5.8% were smokers. In total, 51.5% reported good physical health, with a mean Body Mass Index of 24.4 kg/m(2). Overall, 53.5% reported depression, 66.9% tiredness, 34.6% difficulty sleeping, and 57.3% considered their work hard. Up to 28.5% of those surveyed had thought about leaving their job and 60.8% about reorganizing their workload. In total, 91.9% would continue to choose Ophthalmology as a specialty. In total, 36.2% reported an increase in workload, 42.3% worsening of physical state and 63.8% worsening of emotional state as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. CONCLUSIONS: Spanish ophthalmologists have a positive perception of their physical and emotional health, despite having life habits that are not always healthy and feeling mostly down. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a negative influence on the physical and emotional health of ophthalmologists. Elsevier Masson SAS. 2022-09 2022-06-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9212495/ /pubmed/35760600 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jfo.2022.03.010 Text en © 2022 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved. 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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Gegúndez-Fernández, J.A.
García-Feijóo, J.
Arriola-Villalobos, P.
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title_short Evaluation of the perception of physical and emotional health of ophthalmologists in Spain and the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9212495/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35760600
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jfo.2022.03.010
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