Mental Health of Healthcare Professionals: Two Years of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Portugal

Costa, Alexandra; Almeida, Teresa Caldas de; Fialho, Mónica; Rasga, Célia; Martiniano, Hugo; Santos, Osvaldo; Virgolino, Ana; Vicente, Astrid M.; Heitor, Maria João

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“…The risk factors included participation in women, work in COVID-19 frontline positions, and work-life balance challenges. The protective factors included a high resilience, a strong social support, maintaining hobbies, and a healthy lifestyle [45] .…”

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Covid-19 pandemic? Mental health implications among nurses and Proposed interventions

Georgousopoulou,

Pervanidou,

Perdikaris

et al. 2024

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<abstract><sec> <title>Background</title> With its abrupt and huge health and socio-economic consequences, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has led to a uniquely demanding, intensely stressful, and even traumatic period. Healthcare workers (HCW), especially nurses, were exposed to mental health challenges during those challenging times. </sec><sec> <title>Objectives</title> Review the current literature on mental health problems among nurses caring for COVID-19 patients. </sec><sec> <title>Methods</title> This is a narrative review and critical evaluation of relevant publications. </sec><sec> <title>Results</title> Nurses experienced higher levels of stress, burnout, anxiety, depression, frustration, stigma, and depersonalization compared to other HCW. Factors that increased this symptomatology included concerns about infection or infection of family members, inadequate staff protective equipment, extended working hours, insufficient information, a reduced sense of security, and post-traumatic stress disorder. The factors that improved the psychopathology included a general positive attitude, job satisfaction, adequate information and education, harmonious group relationships, post-traumatic development, emotional intelligence, psychological counseling, mindfulness-based stress reduction, stable leadership, guidance, and moral and practical administrative support. </sec><sec> <title>Conclusions</title> Recent studies clearly show that nurses, especially women, are the most vulnerable subgroup among HCW and are particularly prone to mental health impacts during the COVID-19 pandemic. The documented mental health vulnerability of frontline nursing staff during the COVID-19 pandemic requires preventive nursing management actions to increase resilience and to develop relevant defense mechanisms. </sec></abstract>

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Covid-19 pandemic? Mental health implications among nurses and Proposed interventions

Georgousopoulou,

Pervanidou,

Perdikaris

et al. 2024

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“…As a public health emergency, COVID-19 has seriously affected medical workers' physical and mental health in the past three years 47,48 . Moreover, it takes time for medical workers to recover from the negative emotions that may contribute to burnout during the post-acute crisis period 49 .Although the pandemic period of the COVID-19 has passed, we cannot ignore the possibility of future public health emergencies. As a result, our research suggests implementing targeted interventions and health policies that address job burnout in order to support Chinese medical workers for vaccination throughout other similar health crises that may arise in the long run.…”

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The prevalence and associated factors of job burnout among medical workers at COVID-19 vaccination sites: A cross-sectional study

Qian,

Wang,

Gou

et al. 2023

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Background Medical workers at COVID-19 vaccination sites are exposed to burnout syndrome due to repetitive and overload vaccination work. The purpose of our study was to investigate the prevalence of burnout among these medical workers and to explore its associated factors. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted at COVID-19 vaccination sites in May 2021 in Nanjing, China. The online questionnaire included demographic, job and COVID-19 related characteristics, Chinese Maslach Burnout Inventory, and Social Support Rating Scale. Hierarchical multiple regression model was used to identify the risk factors for job burnout of medical workers. Results The overall prevalence of burnout symptoms among medical workers at COVID-19 vaccination sites was 44.5% with a breakdown in severity as follows: 122 (28.7%) mild, 53 (12.5%) moderate, and 14 (3.3%) severe cases. Hierarchical multiple linear regression analysis indicated that education level, health condition, job titles, self-reported increased work intensity, monthly income and social support were significantly related to job burnout (p < 0.05), which explained 37.6% of the variance of job burnout score (F = 16.046, p < 0.01). Conclusion The burnout symptoms were relatively common among medical workers at COVID-19 vaccination sites. More attention should be paid to medical workers with master degree or higher, poor health condition, junior or middle job titles, increased work intensity, lower income and low level of social support. Interventions that aim to reduce workload and increase social support can be effective approaches to prevent job burnout among medical workers during controlled COVID-19 period.

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“…Estudos evidênciam que a enfermagem é a categoria profissional da saúde mais propensa ao desenvolvimento de problemas relacionados à saúde mental, fato este, intensificado durante o cenário de crise em saúde pública decorrente da pandemia. Investigações realizadas em diferentes países identificaram prevalências significativas desses transtornos entre trabalhadores da área (Liao et al, 2023;Costa et al, 2023;Vega et al, 2023).…”

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International Symposium on Occupational Safety and Hygiene: Proceedings Book of the SHO2023

2023

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Mental Health of Healthcare Professionals: Two Years of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Portugal

Cited by 10 publications

References 46 publications

Covid-19 pandemic? Mental health implications among nurses and Proposed interventions

Covid-19 pandemic? Mental health implications among nurses and Proposed interventions

The prevalence and associated factors of job burnout among medical workers at COVID-19 vaccination sites: A cross-sectional study

International Symposium on Occupational Safety and Hygiene: Proceedings Book of the SHO2023

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