Psychological impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare professionals
Objective: To verify the psychological impacts of COVID-19 on health professionals. Methodology: This is an exploratory, descriptive research with a quantitative approach. The study was carried out in a private higher education institution, located in the city of Vitoria da Conquista, Southwest of B...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Itajubá (UNIFEI) |
| Repositorio: | Research, Society and Development |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/23455 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/23455 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | COVID-19 Psychological distress Pandemic Health professionals. Distrés psicológico Pandemia Profesionales de la salud. Angústia psicológica Profissionais de saúde. |
| Sumario: | Objective: To verify the psychological impacts of COVID-19 on health professionals. Methodology: This is an exploratory, descriptive research with a quantitative approach. The study was carried out in a private higher education institution, located in the city of Vitoria da Conquista, Southwest of Bahia. The instruments used for data collection were a sociodemographic questionnaire developed by the study researchers, DASS-21 (Depression Anxiety Stress) questionnaire developed by Lovibond and Lovibond (1995), and finally the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index questionnaire was applied. (PSQI) developed by Buysse. Results: Twelve health professionals participated in this research, among the data collected from the participants, regarding the level of Anxiety, Depression and Stress, 83.3% of respondents had the index within normality, the PSQI, based on the scores found in the sample, 58.3% of respondents had poor sleep quality. Conclusion: it is concluded that the levels of anxiety, depression and stress among health professionals were considered predominantly normal and the frequency of poor sleep quality in this study was high. |
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