Étude multicentrique du stress chez le personnel soignant des centres hospitalo-universitaires (CHU) d’Abidjan dans le contexte de la pandémie à Covid-19

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY: To evaluate stress among the caregivers of the three Abidjan university hospitals in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: A descriptive and analytical cross-sectional multicenter study of stress was conducted from April 2020 to July 2021 (10 months) in three functional university hospitals in Abidjan (Angre, Cocody, Treichville) during the COVID-19 pandemic. The KARASEK job content questionnaire (26 items) was used for stress evaluation. The study focused on all the care staff of these university hospitals working in the care and diagnostic departments. Qualitative data were described by proportions, while quantitative data by mean and standard deviation. Pearson's X(2) test was used in the analytical study. The significance level of the tests was 5%. RESULTS: Our study involved 783 caregivers with a female predominance of 51.5%. The mean age was 36.7 ± 7.36 years. Paramedical personnel accounted for 60.9% of the workforce. The prevalence of stress was 24% and gestures at risk of exposure to COVID-19 (57.4%), emergency care (38.8%) and influx of patients (15.4%) were the work situations that generated stress for the care staff. There was a significant statistical link between the onset of stress and the number of dependents (P = 0.036), the ASH category (P = 0.036), professional seniority (P = 0.0002) and the lack of measures against COVID-19 (P = 0.032). CONCLUSION: This work has made it possible to highlight work-related stress in Abidjan University Hospitals and to know its risk factors in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.