Depression, anxiety and stress levels among frontline healthcare workers during COVID-19 in Jalisco, México
Abstract
The SARS-CoV-2, which appeared in China at the end of December 2019, is responsible for an acute respiratory infection called COVID-19; in March 2020, this disease was characterized as a pandemic. In addition to physical symptoms, it causes mental health effects, mainly in workers who care for patients with COVID-19. The purpose of this research was to evaluate the indicators of depression, stress, and anxiety in the personnel who work with COVID-19 patients as well as those who work in other areas. A non-experimental, descriptive, cross-sectional research design was used, with non-probabilistic snowball sampling of 299 health workers (74.2% women and 25.4% men) aged from 20 to 66 years, who responded to an online survey. Through the Mann Whitney U test, we found that those who work with COVID-19 patients presented higher indicators of depression, anxiety, and stress; through the odds ratio, we observed that the personnel working with COVID-19 patients had a higher probability of the risk of anxiety (2.53) and stress (2.59). Female doctors had higher levels of stress and depression. There is a need to design mental health care programs with a sex- and gender-based approach for health workers.
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