Al Ammari Maha, Sultana Khizra, Thomas Abin, Al Swaidan Lolowa, Al Harthi Nouf
Department of Pharmacy Service, King Abdul Aziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs (MNGHA), King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Front Psychiatry. 2021 Jan 14;11:619540. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.619540. eCollection 2020.
The study aimed to assess the mental health outcomes and associated factors among health care workers during COVID 19 in Saudi Arabia. We conducted a cross-sectional survey of health care workers from tertiary care and ministry of health Centers across the Central, Eastern, and Western regions of Saudi Arabia. There were 1,130 participants in the survey, and we collected demographic and mental health measurements from the participants. The magnitude of symptoms of depression, anxiety, and insomnia was measured using the original version of 9-item patient health questionnaire (PHQ-9), the 7-item generalized anxiety disorder scale (GAD-7), and 7-item insomnia severity index (ISI). We use the multiple logistic regression analysis to identify the associated risk factors of individual outcomes. The scores on the PHQ-9 showed that the largest proportion of health care workers (76.93%) experienced only normal to mild depression (50.83 and 26.1%, respectively). The scores on the GAD-7 showed that the largest proportion of health care workers (78.88%) experienced minimal to mild anxiety (50.41 and 28.47%, respectively). The scores on the ISI showed that the largest proportion of health care workers (85.83%) experienced absence to subthreshold insomnia (57.08 and 28.75%, respectively). The risk factors for depression in health care workers were Saudi, living with family, working from an isolated room at home and frontline worker. For anxiety, being female was risk factor and for insomnia, being frontline worker was risk factor. It was observed that the symptoms of depression, anxiety, and insomnia were reported in a lower proportion of health care workers in our study. The participants who were female, frontline workers, Saudi, living with family, and working from home in isolated rooms were predisposed to developing psychological disorders.
该研究旨在评估沙特阿拉伯新冠肺炎疫情期间医护人员的心理健康状况及相关因素。我们对沙特阿拉伯中部、东部和西部地区三级医疗保健机构及卫生部下属中心的医护人员进行了一项横断面调查。该调查共有1130名参与者，我们收集了参与者的人口统计学和心理健康测量数据。使用9项患者健康问卷（PHQ - 9）原始版本、7项广泛性焦虑障碍量表（GAD - 7）和7项失眠严重程度指数（ISI）来测量抑郁、焦虑和失眠症状的严重程度。我们使用多元逻辑回归分析来确定个体结果的相关风险因素。PHQ - 9得分显示，最大比例的医护人员（76.93%）仅经历了正常至轻度抑郁（分别为50.83%和26.1%）。GAD - 7得分显示，最大比例的医护人员（78.88%）经历了最小至轻度焦虑（分别为50.41%和28.47%）。ISI得分显示，最大比例的医护人员（85.83%）经历了无至亚阈值失眠（分别为57.08%和28.75%）。医护人员抑郁的风险因素为沙特人、与家人同住、在家中隔离房间工作以及一线工作人员。对于焦虑，女性是风险因素，而对于失眠，一线工作人员是风险因素。据观察，在我们的研究中，报告有抑郁、焦虑和失眠症状的医护人员比例较低。女性、一线工作人员、沙特人、与家人同住以及在家中隔离房间工作的参与者更容易出现心理障碍。
