Mental health assessment in tutors and health professionals during the covid-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study
International Journal of Development Research
Mental health assessment in tutors and health professionals during the covid-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study
Received 11th November, 2022; Received in revised form 16th November, 2022; Accepted 09th December, 2022; Published online 27th January, 2023
Copyright©2023, Ana Sílvia de Mendonça Machado Barbosa de Oliveira et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Objective: To analyze the prevalence of depression, anxiety and stress related to stressors, strategies for the prevention and treatment of injuries in health professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with 91 health professionals. It was used a sociodemographic questionnaire and another to identify the factors that affected mental health, both created by the authors, in addition to the Reduced Version of the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale and the Event Impact Scale – Revised. The data were compiled and analyzed by the programs EXCEL 2016 and R v4.1.0 and contingency tables to examine the associations between the factors were elaborated. Results: The prevalence of anxiety, depression, stress, and post-traumatic stress disorder were, respectively, 27.47%, 5.49%, 1.10% and 14.29%. It was also observed the association of self-perception of negative change in emotional state, decreased amount of sleep, quality of sleep and disposition after a period of sleep, with anxiety and post-traumatic stress. Conclusions: The prevalence of anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder is high among health professionals in the pandemic. Better strategies for prevention and treatment of these disorders should be implemented.
