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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Anxiety, and Depression Symptoms in Healthcare Workers during COVID-19 Pandemic in Colombia

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    • Publication Information:
      The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Masson SAS.
    • Publication Date:
      2022
    • Collection:
      PubMed Central (PMC)
    • Abstract:
      BACKGROUND: : Mental health outcomes in healthcare workers (HCWs) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have been poorly explored during COVID-19 pandemic. Our aim was to carry out a cross-sectional study of the prevalence of mental health symptoms in HCWs in Colombia. METHODS: : A cross-sectional web-survey study was performed during the COVID-19 pandemic mid-2021 including HCWs in two hospitals in Colombia. The PCL-5, GAD-7, and PHQ-9 scales were used to assess the prevalence of symptoms and severity of PTSD, anxiety, and depression in Colombia. RESULTS: : From 257 surveyed respondents, 44.36% were nurses, 36.58% physicians and 19.07% other health professionals. The prevalence of PTSD, anxiety, and depression symptoms were 18.68%, 43.19%, and 26.85%, amongst HCWs. The regression model evidence a strong risk of PTSD, anxiety, and depression symptoms in HCWs in Colombia during the second wave of COVID-19 in the middle of 2021. CONCLUSIONS: : The prevalence for several mental health symptoms in HCWs in Colombia were higher compared with the general population. HCWs are at-risk population to develop chronic symptoms and mental disorders during and after outbreaks. These results will be helpful to tailor strategies to support the physical and mental health of the HCWs in LMICs.
    • Relation:
      http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9395281/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejtd.2022.100293
    • Accession Number:
      10.1016/j.ejtd.2022.100293
    • Online Access:
      https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejtd.2022.100293
      http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9395281/
    • Rights:
      © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. ; Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
    • Accession Number:
      edsbas.F29725BC